Nope; it's because the (RDF Schema) document does a bad job of
presenting some fairly simple ideas. Not that the technical content is
bad, but it lacks a high level overview of what it's setting out to
achieve and how it fits into the broader web architecture...
> [No, Tim, it's a flashing red siren warning of precisely what Mike
> raised -- the world won't "map everything to RDF" if they don't
> understand it! Ora and I and Ralph actually commiserated about the
> difficulty of our very different RDF tutorials -- not a great sign:
> that there's no educational silver bullet there]
Yep; Fair point. The closest thing I've seen to a silver bullet for
explaining this sort of thing is Tim Bray's stuff for MCF, esp:
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML/simple.gif
or http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML/MCF-tutorial.html
Dan