Re: lightweight reification (was Representing trust (and other co ntex t) in RDF)

Graham Klyne wrote:
> >I must appologise for the diagram not being clear.  The intent was to show
> >the whole statement being the subject of the 'asserted by' property which
> >would, I think, be consistent with the RDF model.
> 
> Ah, OK.  Consistent if the statement is reified.

Why should we make a difference between reifying a triple and reifying an arc,
that is :

 ___________
| S -(P)-> O|         S -(P)-> O
|___________|             |
      |              (assertedBy)
 (assertedBy)             |
      |                   v
      v                Someone
   Someone

   (fig 1)              (fig 2)

for me, both representation have the same meaning,
even though M&S uses fig.1, I find fig.2 more readable

NB : in fig.2 I'm not annotating property P ! I'm annotating this one arc
(the one labeled with P, going from S to O... looks like a triple, doesn'it ?)

  Pierre-Antoine

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