Clarified what the term 'property' means.
authorManu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:20:04 -0400
changeset 730 7b45a8345074
parent 729 e746b3f08db1
child 731 d4eea6ac54d4
Clarified what the term 'property' means.
spec/latest/json-ld-syntax/index.html
--- a/spec/latest/json-ld-syntax/index.html	Wed Jun 20 14:03:05 2012 -0700
+++ b/spec/latest/json-ld-syntax/index.html	Fri Jun 22 22:20:04 2012 -0400
@@ -559,17 +559,17 @@
 be used for this specification.
 </p>
 <ol>
-  <li><tdef>Linked Data</tdef> is a set of documents, each containing a representation of a linked data graph.</li>
-  <li>A <tdef>linked data graph</tdef> is an unordered labeled directed graph, where nodes are <tref>subject</tref>s or <tref>object</tref>s, and edges are properties.</li>
+  <li><tdef>Linked Data</tdef> is a set of documents, each containing a representation of a <tref>linked data graph</tref>.</li>
+  <li>A <tdef>linked data graph</tdef> is an unordered labeled directed graph, where nodes are <tref>subject</tref>s or <tref>object</tref>s, and edges are labeled using <tref title="property">properties</tref>.</li>
   <li>A <tdef>subject</tdef> is any node in a <tref>linked data graph</tref> with at least one outgoing edge.</li>
   <li>A <tref>subject</tref> SHOULD be labeled with an <tdef><abbr title="Internationalized Resource Identifier">IRI</abbr></tdef> (an Internationalized Resource Identifier as described in [[!RFC3987]]).</li>
   <li>An <tdef>object</tdef> is a node in a <tref>linked data graph</tref> with at least one incoming edge.</li>
   <li>An <tref>object</tref> MAY be labeled with an <tref>IRI</tref> or a label that is not an <tref>IRI</tref> such as plain text, internationalized text, or a strictly-typed data value.</li>
-  <li>A node MAY be a <tref>subject</tref> and <tref>object</tref> at the same time.</li>
-  <li>A <tdef>property</tdef> is an edge of a
+  <li>A node MAY be a <tref>subject</tref> and an <tref>object</tref> at the same time.</li>
+  <li>A <tdef>property</tdef> is the label on an edge in a
     <tref>linked data graph</tref>.</li>
-  <li>A <tref>property</tref> SHOULD be labeled with an <tref>IRI</tref>.</li>
-  <li>An <tref>IRI</tref> that is a label in a <tref>linked data graph</tref> SHOULD be dereferencable to a <tref>Linked Data</tref> document describing the labeled <tref>subject</tref>, <tref>object</tref> or <tref>property</tref>.</li>
+  <li>A <tref>property</tref> SHOULD be an <tref>IRI</tref>.</li>
+  <li>An <tref>IRI</tref> that is a label in a <tref>linked data graph</tref> SHOULD be dereferencable to a <tref>Linked Data</tref> document describing the labeled <tref>subject</tref>, <tref>property</tref> or <tref>object</tref>.</li>
 </ol>
 
 <p class="issue">An illustration of a linked data graph would probably help here.</p>