Re: Blank Nodes Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

On 11/25/18 8:28 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
 > Just how much of bnode usage is about existence, as you
 > describe, and how much a single potentially nameable object
 > that the creating agent doesn't want to take the trouble
 > to name?

The vast majority of bnodes that I have seen are the latter, though an 
example of the former was pointed out by William Waites earlier in this 
thread:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2018Nov/0078.html

The RDF Semantics 1.1 even explains that "a graph is not logically 
equivalent to its skolemization. Nevertheless, they are in a strong 
sense almost interchangeable":
https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-mt/#skolemization-informative

David Booth

Received on Monday, 26 November 2018 03:54:21 UTC