  Re: RDF 2.0 proposal: contextual properties  From: Garret
Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:09:57
-0700 Message-ID: <46B9CEB5.1090906@globalmentor.com> To: Ivan
Herman <ivan@w3.org>  Ivan Herman wrote: > Are you talking about
> - an extension/change of the RDF core semantics, or > - some
sort of a design pattern, possibly backed up by some syntactic
sugar?  I'm talking about both. The bulk of the proposal is the
latter: a design  pattern of adding properties that are
interpreted to be contextual to  the object as it appears in
some other statement. Adding some syntactic  sugar would make
this easier to work with, and make it feel closer to  how we
think about contextual properties in real life. But obviously
this couldn't be interoperable without the former: in my
proposal,  rdf:context and rdf:of would need to be given defined
semantics.  Obviously one could do this without touching RDF---
the way I structured  my proposal, I can already use this design
pattern with my:context and