- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 21:41:30 +0100
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
On 2 March 2011 21:23, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote: > hey mate > > Melvin Carvalho wrote: >> >> On 2 March 2011 21:02, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote: >>> >>> Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2 March 2011 20:40, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> is the message here "blank nodes are useless, get rid of them / don't >>>>> use >>>>> them" ? >>>> >>>> I would be very happy not to use bnodes >>> >>> why, out of interest, what specific problems cause you to say this? >> >> I know not everyone will agree with this, but I personally find URIs >> simpler to deal with. >> >> I also wonder how to do things like reiificaiton with bnodes. > > if there were a canonical representation of RDF so that graphs could be > signed / hashed / compared irrespective of serialization specifics, would > that solve the issues? That'd be cool, yes. > > also, why reification? I dont really have issues with reification (I know it's a slightly contentious topic), but it does allow some things to be modelled. In general I do like the simplicity of of using URIs, is my main feeling... >
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