Re: RDF-ISSUE-25 (Deprecate Reification): Should we deprecate (RDF 2004) reification? [Cleanup tasks]

Will,

On 9 Apr 2011, at 10:41, William Waites wrote:
> * [2011-04-08 15:29:40 -0400] Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> écrit:
> 
> ] Also, people are likely to reinvent
> ] it unless we can clearly explain why it's a bad idea -- or accurately
> ] describes the problems it causes.
> 
> What of the use of reification to emulate n-ary (where n != 2)
> predicates?

ISSUE-25 is about the RDF reification vocabulary, which is a built-in vocabulary for reifying *statements*. You are talking about a common modeling practice in domain vocabularies for reifying *relationships*. That has nothing to do with ISSUE-25.

Best,
Richard