ISSUE-70: RDF Concepts should mention all datatypes defined in the core specs

xsd-in-rdf-concepts

RDF Concepts should mention all datatypes defined in the core specs

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDF Semantics

Raised by:

Richard Cyganiak

Opened on:

2011-07-21

Description:

RDF Concepts defines what a Datatype is, and defines the rdf:XMLLiteral datatype in detail.

However, it doesn't even mention the fact that the RDF Model Theory defines a set of XSD-based datatypes for use with RDF. (Update: Not quite true; RDF Concepts *does* have a link to the respective section of RDF Model Theory.) Given that Turtle, SPARQL etc have a certain amount of built-in support for some of these datatypes, this seems strange.

I think that the list of compatible XSD datatypes from RDF Model Theory should be moved or copied to RDF Concepts. There should also be a statement about conformance requirements: is support for these datatypes required or optional or what?

The section should perhaps also mention how rdf:PlainLiteral relates to RDF (it's defined as an RDF datatype, but MUST NOT be used in RDF graphs)

Related Actions Items:

• ACTION-122 on Richard Cyganiak to Add list of XSD types to Concepts (assuming no objection from PatH or pfps) - due 2011-11-25, closed

Related emails:

1. Re: Status update on LC comments and post-LC changes to R2RML (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2011-11-07)
2. Status update on LC comments and post-LC changes to R2RML (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2011-11-07)
3. RDF-ISSUE-70 (xsd-in-rdf-concepts): RDF Concepts should mention all datatypes defined in the core specs (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-07-21)

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