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RDF, Topic Maps, predicate calculus, and the Queen of Romania
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[22 July 2008; minor revisions 23 July] Some colleagues and I spent time not long ago discussing the proposition that RDF has intrinsic semantics in a way that XML does not. My view, influenced by some long-ago thoughts about RDF, was that there is no serious difference between RDF and XML here: from interesting semantics we learn things about the real world, and neither the RDF spec nor the XML spec provides any particular set of semantic primitives for talking about the world. The maker of the vocabulary can (I oversimplify slightly, complexification below) make terms mean pretty much anything they want: this is critical both to XML and to RDF.
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