--- a/rdf-spaces/index.html Thu May 10 07:06:13 2012 -0400
+++ b/rdf-spaces/index.html Thu May 10 07:06:32 2012 -0400
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
- <title>RDF Spaces</title>
+ <title>RDF Spaces and Datasets</title>
<style type="text/css">
.figure { font-weight: bold; text-align: center; }
table.xsd-types td, table.xsd-types th { border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 0.1em 0.5em; }
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
// if you want to have extra CSS, append them to this list
// it is recommended that the respec.css stylesheet be kept
- extraCSS: ["http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/ReSpec.js/css/respec.css"],
+ extraCSS: ["http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/ReSpec.js/css/respec.css", "http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/ReSpec.js/css/local.css"],
// editors, add as many as you like
// only "name" is required
@@ -110,11 +110,43 @@
semantics for systems which manage multiple collections of RDF data. </p>
</section>
+<section id="sotd">
+ <div class="alert">
+ <h2>Editor's Draft Status</h2>
+
+ <p>Closing in on FPWD IMHO, but definitely not there yet.</p>
+
+ </div>
+</section>
<section class="informative">
<h2>Introduction</h2>
- <p>@@@ background, context, and general motivation ... </p>
+
+ <p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/">Resource
+ Description Framework (RDF)</a> provides a simple declarative way
+ to store and transmit information. It provides a trivial but
+ effective way to combine information from multiple sources, with
+ graph merging. This allows information from different people,
+ different organizations, different units within an organization,
+ different servers, different algorithms, etc, to all combined and
+ used together, without any special processing or understanding of
+ the relationships among the providers.</p>
+
+ <p>The basic RDF merge operation may be overly simplistic, though,
+ as extra processing and an understanding of the relationships
+ among the providers may be useful. This document specifies a way
+ to conveniently handle information coming from multiple sources,
+ by modeling each one as a separate <em>space</em>, and using RDF to
+ express information about these spaces. In addition to this
+ important concept, we provide a pair of languages—extensions
+ to exsiting RDF syntaxes— which can be used to store or
+ transmit in one document the contents of multiple spaces as well
+ as information about them.
+
+ <p>This approach allows for a variety of <a href="#use-cases">use
+ cases</a> to be addressed in a straightforward manner, as shown
+ in <a href="deailed-example" class="sectionRef"></a>.</p>
</section>