Matters

Then reality hit. Despite the fact that I had actually speced out a
type ontology for the project, and educated everybody about it,
almost none of our RDF processing software actually checked the rdf:type
triple! Apparently, if it
walked like a duck, and quacked like a duck,
then by golly, for all intents and purposes it was a duck! That
was very liberating. I knew the moment I realized this, what had happened;
I simply had overlooked what was important to the recipient of the documents, the data.
rdf:Description; not just a place holder for the lazy.
rdf:type; in many cases, YAGNI

# posted by John Black @ 8:23 AM
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