- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:24:17 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: nathan@webr3.org, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
On 2011-03-26, at 21:35, Pat Hayes wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Nathan wrote: > >> Sandro Hawke wrote: >>> Skolemization. >> >> Sorry, but can somebody clarify why we, or RDF, needs Skolemization? Is this to cover a data management problem particular to a certain way of storing RDF data? > > It means that RDF need not have blank nodes , which (it is suggested) makes it simpler and easier to process in many ways. Well, or maybe that bNodes would cease to be existential variables. The syntax would still be there, but he meaning would be subtly different. - Steve -- Steve Harris, CTO, Garlik Limited 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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