[SCL] Second version of the SCL draft spec here

[Murray Altheim]

Chris Menzel wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:05:05PM +0200, Tanel Tammet wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>After both reading the discussion from the last few days and
>>doing some additional thinking, I have made some modifications
>>and additions to the SCL draft spec.
> 
> I am working on the 1 Nov version of Tanel's document.  I'll try to have
> something out in the next couple of days that cleans up the syntax and
> spells out the section on identity.

Chris,

Not wanting to add too much to your workload, but one of the things
I'd really appreciate would be that all "major" components of the
SCL spec have HTML link anchors on them, so that they establish URLs
which can be used to identify them when people build from the SCL
spec. This is what I've described before as "published subject
identifiers" (PSIs), and is what essentially is used in OWL, Dublin
Core, etc. By "major" components, I would include anything that a
derived concrete syntax might need to connect it up with the SCL
abstract syntax, either in prose or in machine code/markup.

For example, owl:Thing is defined in XML by "Thing" in the "owl"
namespace. There's also the URL

    http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing

So essentially, I'd like to see something akin to

    http://cl.tamu.edu/docs/scl/1.0/#Id
    http://cl.tamu.edu/docs/scl/1.0/#Neg
    http://cl.tamu.edu/docs/scl/1.0/#Conj
    ...
    http://cl.tamu.edu/docs/scl/1.0/#formula
    http://cl.tamu.edu/docs/scl/1.0/#and
    http://cl.tamu.edu/docs/scl/1.0/#or
    etc.

Absent such URIs it will be more difficult to establish subject
identity between an SCL construct and a derived language version
of it. This will also help in developing the XML markup language
itself, and may be a demonstrable tie-in with the abstract syntax.

Thanks,

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

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