Re: plural vs singular properties (a proposal)

On 10/18/07, Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com> wrote:

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> When discussing the RDF version of VCard on this list, we spent weeks
> arguing about whether the vcard.familyName property should take a single
> value or a list, because value order might be important. With URF, the
> issue is moot. You can order any property, and only use urf.List when
> you're actually talking about a list of things. You can see that this
> problem doesn't come up at all in the URF VCard ontology at
> <http://www.urf.name/vcard.turf>.

Question: are the difficulties around these issues in RDF a
consequence of the open world assumption, and the need to be able to
merge statements from disparate graphs?

Bruce