RE: Blank nodes for concepts. from Danny Ayers on 2004-02-05 (public-esw-thes@w3.org from February 2004)

From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:19:34 +0100
To: "Steve Cayzer" <steve.cayzer@hp.com>, "Miles, AJ (Alistair) " <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BKELLDAGKABIOCHDFDBPEEMIFGAA.danny666@virgilio.it>

> Makes sense to me.

Agreed. I had my doubts when I first saw a blank node used for foaf:Person,
seemed counter-intuitive, but with the use cases that have flowed through
rdfweb-dev it looks like this was almost certainly a very wise move. A
person is a tricky enough thing to pin down, I expect something like a
concept [waves hands in vivid demonstration] would be even more problematic.

One thing that may be needed in the docs - a warning about sticking a URI
in - one company (I forget which, better not guess) has been putting a URI
in their ever-so-slightly-modified FOAF files. Not pretty.

Cheers,
Danny.

Received on Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:28:31 UTC