Re: How/Why to implement Reification efficiently...

Ora Lassila wrote:

> Seth Russell wrote:
> > Well I don't know about parsers, but I didn't have any problems building a
> > mentograph of this :))
> >
> > http://robustai.net/mentography/abouteach.html
>
> Cute graph, but unfortunately it has very little to do with how RDF is
> supposed to be parsed :-(
>
> First, the way we *defined* things in the RDF M+S, there should be only
> one "documents" arc, not two.

Yes, but certainly [x , p, [[] , rdf_1, y]] is meant to be interpreted as [x, p,
y] ... isn't it?

> Second, even if there were two arcs, why would you point them to the
> "creator" arcs, and not the XYZ and ABC nodes?

That is just a short hand interpretation simplifying the details.
see [Arcs can be objects]  http://robustai.net/mentography/arcarc.jpg

Seth Russell