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- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:07:59 +0000
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RDF-ISSUE-25 (Deprecate Reification): Should we deprecate (RDF 2004) reification? [Cleanup tasks] http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/25 Raised by: Sandro Hawke On product: Cleanup tasks The RDF 1999 and 2004 Recommendations include vocabulary and syntax (in RDF/XML) for RDF "reification". The vocabulary is rdf:Statement, rdf:subject, rdf:predicate, and rdf:object; the syntax is rdf:ID used on a property element. Although this feature is sometimes used in practice, some experts advise data providers to avoid it. It has no syntactic support in RDFa or Turtle. Should the WG align with this advice and say this feature is only to be use for backward compatibility? (That is, RDF/XML parsers must continue to support the syntax, and libraries should allow applications to use the features to interoperate with legacy RDF systems.) Note that many or all of the use cases of reification are also uses cases for [GRAPHS]. The decision about the fate of reificiation is connected with what happens with [GRAPHS]. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/#reification http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/RDF_Core_Work_Items#Data_Model_Issues
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