- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 23:19:46 -0700
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: samwald@gmx.at, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch
>On May 16, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > >>>Named graphs ARE supported by most triplestores, but they are >>>mostly already reserved for other uses, like the representation of >>>provenance based on the RDF files that the triples were loaded >>>from. >>> >> >>Reserved? In what sense? a single URi can have multiple properties >>and hence multiple uses. >> > >I think he means reserved in the sense of the question I asked you >about nested graphs - if graphs can't nest then it seems difficult, >on the face of it, to have a graph that groups a set of statements >that, say, comes from one data provider(the provenance information), >and within it graphs that mark groups of statements in order to talk >about evidence for them. Ah, I see. Yes, there are all kinds of ways that structures of sub- and super- graphs could be defined which are not currently supported by any standards in the RDF family. >-Alan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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