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@@ -130,10 +130,10 @@
<section id="section-Introduction">
<h2>Introduction</h2>
- <p class="note">The objective of this document is to give a light-weight overview of RDF 1.1.
+ <p class="note">Thys document gives a light-weight overview of RDF 1.1.
Secs. 3-5 can be used as a minimalist introduction into the key
elements of RDF. Changes between RDF 1.1
- and RDF 1.0 (2004 version) are summarized in the separate document "What's New in RDF
+ and RDF 1.0 (2004 version) are summarized in a separate document: "What's New in RDF
1.1" [[RDF11-NEW]].</p>
<p>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
three elements they are called <strong>triples</strong>.
</p>
- <p>RDF allows us to make statements of the form:</p>
+ <p>Here are examples of RDF triples:(</p>
<pre class="example" id="example-1">
<Bob> <is a> <person>.
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@
<figcaption>Informal graph of the sample triples</figcaption>
</figure>
+ <p>Once you have a graph like this you can use SPARQL [[SPARQL11-OVERVIEW]] to
+ query for e.g. people interested in paintings by Leonardo da
+ Vinci.</p>
+
<p>The RDF Data Model is described in this section
in the form of an "abstract syntax", i.e. a data model that is independent of a
particular concrete syntax (the syntax used to represent triples stored in
@@ -323,8 +327,8 @@
<p>IRIs can appear in <strong>all three positions</strong> of a triple. </p>
- <p>IRIs are used to identify resources such as documents,
- physical, people, physical objects, and asbttact concepts.
+ <p>As mentioned, IRIs are used to identify resources such as documents,
+ people, physical objects, and asbttact concepts.
For example, the IRI for the "Mona Lisa" painting in
<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a> is:</p>
@@ -341,8 +345,8 @@
<p>IRIs are global identifiers, so other people can re-use this
IRI to identify the same thing. For example, the following IRI is
- used by many people as an RDF property to state a friendship
- relationship:</p>
+ used by many people as an RDF property to state an acquaintance
+ relationship between people:</p>
<div class="example"><a href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows">http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows</a></div>
@@ -424,7 +428,7 @@
<p>RDF provides a mechanism to group RDF statements in multiple
graphs and associate each graph with an IRI . Multiple graphs are a recent extension of the RDF
data model. In practice, RDF tool builders and data managers
- needed a mechanism to talk about subsets of of a collection of
+ needed a mechanism to talk about subsets of a collection of
triples. Multiple graphs were first introduced in the RDF query
language SPARQL. The RDF data model was therefore extended with a notion of
multiple graphs that is closely aligned with SPARQL.</p>
@@ -484,6 +488,8 @@
in the intended way. Possible semantics of datasets are described in a separate note
[[RDF11-DATASETS]]. </p>
+<p class="note">Consider adding a diagram of informal multiple graphs</p>
+
<p><a href="#subsection-trig">Sec. 5.2</a> provides an example
of concrete syntax for this example.</p>
@@ -626,6 +632,11 @@
vocabulary</a>.</dd>
</dl>
+<p>Vocabularies get their value from reuse: the more vocabulary ITIs
+are reused by others, the more valuable it becomes to use the
+IRIs (the so-called netwrok effect). This means you should prefer
+re-using someone else's IRI instead of inventing a new one. </p>
+
<p>For a formal specification of the semantics of the RDF Schema
constructs the reader is referred to
the RDF Semantics document [[RDF11-MT]]. Users interested in more comprehensive