Re: GoodRelations Light

The "node" language confuses more than it helps. Bnodes represent
things that we haven't given a name. For example when my wife was
pregnant, there was a growing embryo that we didn't name for a while.
A bnode might be used to represent that growing to-be child.

Or I know that everyone (so far) has a biological mom. I might use a
bnode to represent the mom of a friend whose name I don't know.

Perhaps a good common word to use would be "something", or "something
node" if you are fond of "node" language.

-Alan

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, Michael F Uschold <uschold@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is a bnode really? It has no name, it is thus  sort of an implicit node. Whatever name we use for it should be suggestive of the meaning, if it is going to widely used. Even for geeks seeing it for the first time, a meaningful name is easier and faster to learn from and work with.
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> "bnode" suggests nothying of the meaning."anonymous node" is a bit more helpful."unnamed node" is a bit shorter, faster to grok"implicit node" also captures something of what it means.
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> Anything but "bnode" :-))
> Michael
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Richard Levenberg <richard@connectsolutions.com> wrote:
> They used to be termed anonymous nodes
> r
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> On May 17, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote:
> I have one concern: the term "bnode" may be hard to understand. Is there another term that might be a bit more meaningful to the average potential user? Or perhaps we assume most users will be geeks?
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> Michael
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> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
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> Dear all:
>
> I tried to visualize the minimal RDF pattern for using GoodRelations in a way compatible with both Google and the Semantic Web at large.
> Attached, please find the respective illustration.
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> It is meant as a complement to the complete GoodRelations UML diagram.
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> Best wishes
>
> Martin
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