--- a/rdf-primer/index.html Wed Nov 13 13:07:59 2013 +0100
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html Wed Nov 13 13:10:02 2013 +0100
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
<div class="example"><a href="http://data.europeana.eu/item/04802/243FA8618938F4117025F17A8B813C5F9AA4D619">http://data.europeana.eu/item/04802/243FA8618938F4117025F17A8B813C5F9AA4D619</a></div>
<p class="note">RDF is agnostic about what the IRI stands for. However,
- IRIS may be given meaning by particular vocabularies or
+ IRIs may be given meaning by particular vocabularies or
conventions. VIAF (see example above) is an example of such a vocabulary. RDF
vocabularies are discussed in more detail in Sec. <a
href="#section-vocabulary">"RDF vocabularies"</a>. </p>
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
<h3>Blank nodes</h3>
- <p>IRIS and literals together provide the basic material for
+ <p>IRIs and literals together provide the basic material for
writing down RDF statements. In addition, it is sometimes handy to
be able to talk about anonymous resources. For example, we might
want to state that "the Mona Lisa was created by X" and that "X
@@ -373,6 +373,9 @@
to denote resources without explicitly naming them with an
IRI.</p>
+ <p class="issue">"survive" might be a bit strong - maybe another
+ wording?</p>
+
<p class="note">Blank nodes can make RDF look very complicated,
especially when one consults details about blank nodes in the RDF Concepts
[[RDF11-CONCEPTS]] and RDF Semantics [[RDF11-MT]] documents. It
@@ -392,7 +395,7 @@
a blank node can also be associated with a graph.</p>
<p>For example, the
- statements in the first example could be grouped in two
+ statements in <a href="#subsection-triple">the first example</a> could be grouped in two
graphs. A first graph could be provided by a social networking
site and identified by <code>http://example.com/bob</code>:</p>
@@ -403,15 +406,11 @@
<Bob> <is interested in> <the Mona Lisa>.
</pre>
- <p class="note">The IIRI associated with the graph is
- sometimes colloquially called the "graph name". In
- practical RDF deployment the nature of the relation between the graph IRI and
- the graph itself varies and is not necessarily a
- naming relation in the strict sense of the word. For this reason RDF 1.1
- does not specify a particular semantics for the relation between
- the "graph name" and the graph. See @@ for a more in-depth
- discussion on this issue. </p>
-
+ <p class="note">The IRI associated with the graph is
+ called the "graph name" in [[!RDF-CONCEPTS]]. However
+ RDF 1.1 does not specify a particular semantics for the
+ relation between the "graph name" and the graph [[!RDF-SEMANTICS]].</p>
+
<p>A second graph could be provided by <a
href="http://www.wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a>
and identified by
@@ -437,7 +436,7 @@
could, for example, be used to record graph metadata, such as
the two last statements about publisher and license information.</p>
- <p>In Sec. <a href="#trig-syntax">"Trig syntax"</a> an example
+ <p>Sec. <a href="#trig-syntax">"Trig syntax"</a> provides an example
of concrete syntax for this example.</p>
<p class="note">Multiple graphs are a recent extension of the RDF
@@ -456,16 +455,20 @@
<h2>RDF Vocabularies</h2>
+ <p class="issue">Not entirely sure about the VIAF example below - does it
+ belong to a section on vocabularies? Wouldn't it be better to add
+ an example of 'following your nose' to a vocabulary?</p>
+
<p>The RDF data model provides a way to make statements about
(Web) resources. As we mentioned, this data model does not make any
assumptions about what these resources stand for. In practice, RDF
is typically used in combination with vocabularies or other
conventions that provide semantic information about these
- resources.For example, if you put the VIAF IRI for Leonardo da
+ resources. For example, if you put the VIAF IRI for Leonardo da
Vinci (see Sec. <a href="#subsection-IRI">"IRI"</a>) in your
browser you will see a page with information about this
- artist. VIAF maintains, amongst others, 15 million of such person
- records. @@ ref </p>
+ person. VIAF maintains a very large set of such person
+ records.</p>
<p class="note">Your browser will display a HTML page. Content
negotiation [[WEBARCH]] allows you to get the data in multiple
@@ -592,7 +595,7 @@
<p>RDF Schema provides basic facilities for modeling semantics of RDF
data. For a specification of these semantics the reader is referred to
the RDF Semantics document [[RDF11-MT]]. For more comprehensive
-semantic modeling of RDF data W3C recommends the use the Web Ontology
+semantic modeling of RDF data the W3C recommends using the Web Ontology
Language OWL [[OWL2-OVERVIEW]]. </p>
</section>
@@ -621,8 +624,8 @@
introduces a number of syntax shortcuts, such as
support for namespaces, lists and shorthands for datatyped
literals. Turtle provides a trade-off between ease of
- writing, ease of parsing and readability. Our first example (@@
- ref) can be
+ writing, ease of parsing and readability. Our
+ <a href="#subsection-triple">first example</a> can be
represented in Turtle as follows:</p>
<pre class="example" id="turtle-example">
@@ -711,7 +714,7 @@
document. One could view it as one language. The names Turtle and TriG
still exist for historical reasons.</p>
- <p>The multi-graph version of our example (@@ ref)
+ <p>The <a href="#subsection-multiple-graphs">multi-graph version of our example</a>
can be specified in TriG as follows:</p>
<pre class="example" id="trig-example">