Re: XML and GILS

Subject: Re: XML and GILS
eric j. miller (emiller@oclc.org)
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:05:23 +0000

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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:05:23 +0000
From: "eric j. miller" <emiller@oclc.org>
To: gils@cni.org
Subject: Re: XML and GILS
References: <199803271919.NAA10290@rgate.ricochet.net>

Carl Hage <carl@chage.com> wrote:
>
> RDF has had the same problem as XML-- lack of semantics for
> attributes. If you ask me, 99% of the value of GILS is in the
> definitions of the attributes and controlled vocabularies. Previously

Carl,

The W3C RDF Working Groups [0] are in essence all about how to represent
and define semantics. As such, I don't understand your statement. In
essence, RDF Model [1] provides the representation of semantics, XML [2]
provides a syntax to transmit this representation from one machine to
another, and RDF Schema's [3] are being designed to define the
semantics.

[0] http://www.w3.org/RDF
[1] http://www.w3.org/RDF/Group/Syntax
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML
[3] http://www.w3.org/RDF/Group/Schema

Can you elaborate on your statement further?

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