RDF Semantics - Definition of "Interpretation" is missing

Regarding
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-rdf11-mt-20130723/

Section 4 of the RDF Semantics is careful to define all of the major 
terms that are used within the document . . . except one.  AFAICT, the 
general notion of an "interpretation" is nowhere defined.  Later in the 
document, specific kinds of interpretations are defined, such as Simple 
Interpretations, RDF Interpretations and RDFS Interpretations.  But 
AFAICT a definition of the general notion of an interpretation is 
completely absent.

The 2004 version of the semantics had a very nice explanation of the 
notion of interpretations:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-mt-20040210/#interp
and it had a glossary definition of the term:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-mt-20040210/#glossInterpretation

I don't know why the current draft eliminated those sections, but 
somehow the RDF Semantics needs to explain what is meant by an 
"interpretation", since the notion is central to the semantics.

I would suggest restoring the explanation from the 2004 version, but I 
would be fine with some other replacement instead.

Thanks,
David

Received on Thursday, 10 October 2013 02:41:32 UTC