[topicmaps-comment] RE: RDF/Topic Maps: what's an Application? (was:Re: [topicmaps-c omment] RE: OASIS vs W3C)

["Tsao, Scott" <scott.tsao@boeing.com>]

[Lars Marius Garshol:]
> As for the original question: what RDF and topic maps
> do better than each other, I can only agree that the
> answer to this is less clear than it ought to be. I
> trying to work this out for myself, but so far a
> major part of the problem has been that I don't know
> what anyone would use RDF for. (I'm not saying it's
> useless, just that I am not very clueful about
> practical applications of it.)

I am not sure if this statement in XML Service Description Working Group
Charter (Proposal):
"The Working Group must use RDF for providing any semantically significant
information."
(see http://www.w3.org/2001/09/wscp/canon.html) could be considered as a
practical
application of RDF.

Regards,

Scott