Re: Indicating Skolem Nodes (was Re: AW: {Disarmed} Re: blank nodes (once again))

On 2011-03-26, at 09:09, Steve Harris wrote:
> I get where you're coming from, but I suspect that not being able to dereference is a good thing in some cases.
> 
> If it's a dereferencable URI then you win a load of moral(?) obligations to make them stable and persistent, which is some of the things you're might be trying to get away from when using bNodes.
> 
> I like the UUID prefix, gets round a lot of practical issues.
> 
> <bnode:3dff1ee0-783a-42f4-8d67-4381dd4dd83e:123456> can't be resolved, but you can use it in, for e.g.
> 
> http://sparql.example.com/data?graph=bnode%3A3dff1ee0-783a-42f4-8d67-4381dd4dd83e%3A123456
> 
> Ignoring for a moment the raft of exciting scope issues that raises :)

A less crazy example is maybe:

http://sparql.example.com/?query=DESCRIBE%20%3Cbnode%3A3dff1ee0-783a-42f4-8d67-4381dd4dd83e%3A123456%3E

It's an exercise for the user to map UUIDs to endpoints, but that feels more practical than a global registry of every skolemised bNode.

- Steve

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