Re: How to avoid that collections "break" relationships (ISSUE-41)

On 6/5/14 9:35 AM, Ruben Verborgh wrote:
>> >As Gregg noted in a different mail [1] (I'm on a plane, so perhaps he
>> >already responded himself in the meantime) using rdf:subject etc. would mean
>> >that the whole thing is an rdf:Statement:
> Which does not need to be a bad thing.
>
>> >  I don't think we want to invoke Reification
> But we are: if we say that
> "this is the document consisting of triples with that subject and predicate",
> we are doing reification. No need to hide that.
>
+1

Markus:

I don't know how reification became a conflation of "bad thing" and "bad 
word".

If denoting useful things with HTTP URIs is RDF based Linked Data 101, 
what's wrong with denoting an rdf:Statement ?

Reification is actually very useful, and it does actually help 
developers and end-user comprehend RDF.

These matters are all artificially confusing because of that ghastly RDF 
notation called RDF/XML.

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Received on Thursday, 5 June 2014 15:22:54 UTC