For XML Schema Datatypes, see "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes" at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2
For RDF Datatypes the picture isn't so well explained in the specs. Basically
you should look at the RDF Syntax spec, especially the bit at
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#section-Syntax-datatyped-literals
and at the part of RDF concepts that sort of explains and sort of confuses
the issue - http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-Datatypes and then try
to work through the complex notation and expression in the model and theory
specification which gives the formal semantics, and also points to a set of
useful datatypes for iso 8601 dates (i.e. those already defined in XML
Schema) - this is at http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#dtype_interp
There is some simple stuff in the OWL guide at
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/#Datatypes1 and an example of how to contruct
a range for a Datatype property at
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref#EnumeratedDatatype (The syntax looks really
scary, but it is actually just verbose - it is pretty easy to generate it
automatically from any syntactic shortcut you like and then use it with
tools). The stuff in the OWL Abstract syntax and semantics spec is way over
my head - it defines all this in formal logic, if you're interested in
chasing that up.
cheers
Chaals
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Childress,Eric wrote:
>Charles,
>
> Thanks for the quick comments. Can you supply URLs to the appropriate documents?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:00 AM
>To: Childress,Eric
>Cc: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: DCMI Date WG workplan 2004/2005 -- proposed
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>this looks like a good plan to me.
>
>I think that it would be nice to include in this looking at RDF and XML
>schema datatypes for dates, which extend somewhat the possible range (e.g.
>they do allow for B.C.E dates), but which are also partially related to usage
>in particular syntax rather than the general schemes.
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