Re: Well Behaved RDF - Taming Blank Nodes, etc.

Hi David

That's what I figured after reading some other messages in the thread, and
was about to post exactly the syntax you propose, wondering if it was Well
Behaved RDF despite the nested implicit bnodes. Glad to see it is, so John
can keep writing his RDF diary this way :)

Bernard


2012/12/13 David Booth <david@dbooth.org>

> hi Bernard,
>
> On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 10:48 +0100, Bernard Vatant wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > I'm 100% with Pat here in the defence of blank nodes, as ever [1]
> > The more I'm using RDF daily, the more I love them, and seems to me
> > you miss a lot of RDF expressivity by wanting everything to be
> > uniquely identified by a URI
> > Just another example : "John met a girl yesterday in a cafe".
> > Are you going to coin a URI for those ill-identified girl, cafe, and
> > event? Certainly not. But you want to record this information in
> > John's bio because you guess it's likely to be of some importance
> > later in his life, even if so far you don't know more about it.
> >
> > The "natural" expression of things in RDF is that some event in the
> > life of John took place yesterday, involving some girl in some cafe.
> >
> > @prefix bio:<http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/>
> > @prefix foaf:<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
> > @prefix schema:<http://schema.org/>
> >
> > :John    bio:event   _:someEvent .
> > _:someEvent  bio:Date  '2012-12-12' .
> > _:someEvent  bio:Participant  _:someGirl .
> > _:someEvent  bio:place _:someCafe .
> > _:someGirl  a  foaf:Person .
> > _:someGirl  foaf:gender  'female' .
> > _:someCafe  a  schema:CafeOrCoffeeShop .
> >
> Well Behaved RDF does not prohibit blank nodes, it just constrains their
> use to avoid problems.  The example above *is* Well Behaved RDF.  It
> could have been written in Turtle using only implicit blank nodes:
>
> :John
>     bio:event [
>         bio:Date "2012-12-12" ;
>         bio:Participant [
>             a foaf:Person ;
>             foaf:gender "female"
>         ] ;
>         bio:place [
>             a schema:CafeOrCoffeeShop
>         ]
>     ] .
>
>
> --
> David Booth, Ph.D.
> http://dbooth.org/
>
> Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily
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>
>


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