A bit of synergy this morning?

[Daniel Veillard]

  That's a very good point, 
 You should definitely forward your suggestion to the RDF interest list !
  
 the question can be reversed:
   - how well can we map Xlink to RDF model ? 
 
There will be a attempt to answer the second question in the next XLink
draft (to be made public real soon),

Daniel

> Question:
> Could an RDF "record" be a link?
> or could an Xlink be an RDF record?
> 
> At first sight this may not be too significant, but if you think more about
> it, it brings tremendous advantages. So, let's imagine, for a second if an
> xlink extended locator would also be an RDF "record". The link would also
> contain meta-information about the linked resource for instance if I have
> the following expression:
> 
> <specifications xlink:type="extended">
> <rdf:desciption xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="http://www.w3c.org/xlink">
>   <relase_date>12/24/99<release_date>
>   <type>christmas gift</type>
>   <description>W3C would be a santa claus for us poor XML
> developers</description>
> </rdf:description>
> </specifications>
> 
> OK, put as resource description more significant information :-)) but the
> point here is the following: if an RDF description would also recognize the
> Xlink attribute for linkage (so that we can replace the
> rdf:about="http://www.w3c.org/xlink" with
> xlink:href="http://www.w3c.org/xlink" then the resource description can also
> be a link. or vise versa.
> 
> The impacts are:
> a) more significant links (links that also include meta-information about
> the linked resource)
> b) Resources descriptions could be used as links (the commutative reasoning)
> c) a browser can display a one to many link as a two level context menu as
> below
> 
>    rdf specifications ----------------------
> 			    | W3C documents       |
> 			    | Didier's suggestion |
> 			    | examples            |----------------------
> 			    ----------------------| author: Will johnson |
> 							  | date: 12/24/99       |
> 							  | description: bla..   |
> 							  ------------------------
> The first menu is...a menu, then when a particular locator is highlighted, a
> tool tip kind of window is displayed to provide additional information about
> the link (the meta information about the resource).
> d) probably a lot more I didn't envisionned.
> 
> Observation:
> I discovered something observing the W3C output. It seems that each
> workgroup creates its own workspace... heu sorry, its own name space and do
> not re-use the work of others (have you found a lot of name space element
> re-usage among the WGs?). For example, it would be beneficial is the rdf WG
> would use the xlink workgroup reference attribute for the resource reference
> and vise versa. The xlink group can as well take the rdf:about attribute as
> a resource reference. Anyway, if these group where to talk each other or
> just exercise their synthetic mind, it would become more obvious that if
> they mix a bit their mind space... heu sorry their name space they would
> provide us synergistic constructs. Or maybe that it never occurred to
> somebody that a resource could be a link or that a link could also be a
> resource description. Hoops, did I invented something here or did I
> discovered that workgroups do not talk each other?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Didier PH Martin
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