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Andy Powell wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dan Brickley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">* Julian Bond <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:julian_bond@voidstar.com"><julian_bond@voidstar.com></a> [2003-07-23 08:00+0100]
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<pre wrap="">One of the powerful ideas in FOAF is the widespread use of rdfs:seeAlso
Could this be usefully applied in RSS?
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<pre wrap="">It can be used in any RDF-based format whenever you've mentioned
something and want to reference more (typically machine-processable, RDF)
info about it elsewhere in the Web.
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I assume that the semantics of seeAlso are pretty loose - i.e. you can use
it to point to anything, some more RDF, some XML, an HTML page, a PDF file
or whatever? I.e. in some cases you are getting something
machine-readable, in other cases you aren't.
I have never understood why, in a semantically rich environment like RDF,
one would want to use such semantically fuzzy properties. Why not use a
more precise property like 'additionalRDF' (a sub-property of seeAlso) if
that is what you mean?
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That is the problem I try to solve with the mod_link spec for RSS 1.0.
It is hard to use ad hoc URLs in a distributed system without knowing
what the document represents. There are of course hacks to this system
but if you don't have the media relationships "this if a FOAF file in
RDF and in English" then it becomes hard to determine if you should use
the resource.<br>
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Kevin<br>
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