ISSUE-178: CR comment: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time."

CR comment: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time."

State:
CLOSED
Product:
RDF Concepts
Raised by:
Thomas Baker
Opened on:
2013-12-10
Description:
Raised on the mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2013Dec/0084.html

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A minor point, but the wording of the following bullet point in Section 5 of
Concepts [1] seems ambiguous:

Some properties may change over time. A relationship that holds between two
resources at one time may not hold at another time.

The first sentence can too easily be read as saying that properties
_themselves_ change, whereas: "An IRI, once minted, should never change its
intended referent". Perhaps something like the following is intended:

A relationship that holds between two resources at one time (i.e., a
property) may not hold at another time.

This fits with the earlier characterization of a property as "a resource that
can be thought of as a binary relation". [2]

Tom

[1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#change-over-time
[2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#data-model
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Related emails:
  1. Re: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from david@3roundstones.com on 2013-12-17)
  2. Re: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2013-12-12)
  3. Re: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from tom@tombaker.org on 2013-12-11)
  4. RE: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from markus.lanthaler@gmx.net on 2013-12-11)
  5. Re: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from tom@tombaker.org on 2013-12-11)
  6. Re: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2013-12-10)
  7. RE: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from markus.lanthaler@gmx.net on 2013-12-10)
  8. Re: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from tom@tombaker.org on 2013-12-10)
  9. RE: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." (ISSUE-178) (from markus.lanthaler@gmx.net on 2013-12-10)
  10. RDF-ISSUE-178: CR comment: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." [RDF Concepts] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-12-10)

Related notes:

Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2013Dec/0125.html

Accepted: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2013Dec/0129.html

Markus Lanthaler, 11 Dec 2013, 20:27:36

Accepted: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2013Dec/0132.html

Markus Lanthaler, 12 Dec 2013, 09:38:07

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