Re: Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web

Chris Mungall wrote:
> Provenance is kind of important for science, and it doesn't do it any 
> favours to mix provenance at the document and statement levels

+1

I wouldn't mind if the two levels were supported through the same 
mechanism, however this risks complicating and slowing down things.

 From the point of view of someone who needs something that works now: 
RDF/XML supports both document-level statements and reification; the main 
issues are that 1. RDF/XML doesn't allow you to package several documents 
(with metadata) into one file, and 2. tools don't support reification well 
(just try writing a SPARQL query that queries statements about statements).