Re: Putting metadata in the "default" graph Re: Dataset Syntax - checking for consensus

On 2012-09-27, at 13:04, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:

> On 9/27/2012 7:08 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 26/09/12 17:41, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:
>>> We need to support it for compatibility, but I think it's a mistake to
>>> specify that anything important be put in that graph.
>> 
>> There are two uses cases: you and Steve emphasis the complicated case of multiple graphs collected from many places.
>> 
>> The simple case is one graph.  For that, making the publisher go through "naming" is just overhead for them.
>> 
> 
> In the case of one graph, I'd imagine one would use RDF/XML or Turtle or what-not and use traditional ways of specifying metadata.
> 
> Simple or not, I don't think that a single graph is at all a common use case for TriG, and I don't think we should design a TriG metadata approach around it.

Exactly.

- Steve

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