[SCL] RDF in an SCL world

[Bill Andersen]

On Jul 16, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Murray Altheim wrote:

> John F. Sowa wrote:
>> Bill,
>> There are two strategies for handling relations with
>> more than 2 arguments in RDF:
>>   1. If you have a relation R with N arguments, treat
>>      R as an entity that is connected to each of its
>>      actual arguments by binary connectives named
>>      Arg1, Arg2, ..., ArgN.
>>   2. Toss the RDF software in the trashcan and use SCL.
>> I recommend strategy #2, but you can go with #1 if
>> forced into it.
>
> There's also #3:
>
>     3. Wait until SCL is actually available before doing any tossing.

Gotta go with Murray on this one.  We (Ontology Works) will use SCL 
internally, as we have always planned, but I have no illusion that many 
of our customers will use it outside the box.  Fact is that many 
commercial OWL-driven systems (when they come) will emit RDF.  Products 
will be written that will expect RDF at the interface.  So, we need to 
provide some mechanism to play in this world.