Thomas Baker wrote:
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> As in discussions of the "default value" model in the past, we have
> slipped into talking about the process of reading that default value
> (or DumbDown value) as "dumbing down".
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> I would like to suggest that we find another term for this. In current
> usage, "dumbing down" means "ignoring the qualifiers". The idea -- or
> principle -- is that an application will not know all of qualifiers in
> use and so should always be able to just ignore them and still use an
> unqualified literal for discovery. The principle can also be used as a
> conceptual test of the appropriateness of a qualifier.
>
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> If the process of "reading" or "extracting" [1] the "default value" of
> an INTNODE is _also_ called "dumbing down", it bothers me that we are
> not differentiating between two processes which, though not entirely
> unrelated, are conceptually quite different, making it that much more
> difficult to distinguish the two in our explanations.
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> I would prefer we say "reading the default value".
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I agree strongly with Tom here.
It should still be straightforward to extract a "dumb" value even when the metadata provider has
neglected to provide a "default value".
Stripping the qualifiers while retaining all literals is "dumb-down".
Anything else is something else.
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