- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:25:48 -0500
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On Apr 20, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Steve Harris wrote: > On 2011-04-20, at 08:43, Andy Seaborne wrote: > On 19/04/11 13:50, Ivan Herman wrote: >>> >>> On Apr 19, 2011, at 14:40 , Andy Seaborne wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 19/04/11 11:59, Ivan Herman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 19, 2011, at 12:15 , Andy Seaborne wrote: >>>>> >>>>> <snip/> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't worry about dereferencability so prefer "genid:" >>>>> >>>>> I think there was a general feeling at the f2f that everybody would >>>>> prefer this, except that... per Sandro, it took 10 years to get the >>>>> tag: schema through IETF, so having a genid: scheme through IETF >>>>> would be a nightmare, let alone that it may not be done by the time >>>>> this working group closes:-( >>>> >>>> (Minor, not urgent) >>>> >>>> For the genid: URI scheme: >>>> >>>> 1/ Is it only for bNodes? >>> >>> yes >>> >>>> "genid" reads as if it's for any generated id; there are other schemes already + risk of clashes. >> >> In that case, I suggest that "bnode" is better than "genid" because generated ids can occur for other reasons, and potentially confusing for RDF, IRI generation from some database key. > > Strong -1 - these are not bNodes, but something else, derived from bNodes. We have strong +1s as well. How about blank: rather than bnode: ? ; it conveys the intention without causing such direct confusion (?) Or anon: or some: or unk: (for UNKnown) or ... > > Note that 4store uses <bnode:...>, and I'm still anti. > > - Steve > > -- > Steve Harris, CTO, Garlik Limited > 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK > +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ > Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 > Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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