ODM11 — RDFWeb serves no purpose

Recent changes/clarifications in the RDF 1.1 specification reduce the need for a separate RDFWeb package. Further, there has been, and there is unlikely to be, any movement by other standards to use it to “map to similar features in a Common Logic ontology, Topic Map, UML, or ER conceptual model”. Finally, it adds confusion through the existence of duplicated class names with the RDFConcepts package.

Therefore the package (section 10.9) should be removed and any metamodel elements merged into RDFConcepts.

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A. In section titles for 10.2 thru 10.5, remove “RDFBase Package,” and in titles 10.6 thru 10.8 remove “RDFS Package” and in 10.9 title remove “(RDFWeb Package)”

B. Remove the package RDFWeb from the metamodel, merging all of its classes into RDF Concepts (using MOF/UML PackageMerge rules)

C. Delete the first 2 paragraphs of section 10.9

D. Retitle Figure 10.9 as “RDF Documents”