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Re: [syndication] seeAlso

Andy Powell wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dan Brickley wrote:

  
* Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com> [2003-07-23 08:00+0100]
    
One of the powerful ideas in FOAF is the widespread use of rdfs:seeAlso

Could this be usefully applied in RSS?
      
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.
    
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?
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.

Kevin
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