Re: Modelling "proper names", and other topics

Seth,

I'll return to the rest of your message another time (I don't disagree with 
much of what you say), but there's one point I'd like to respond to now:

At 11:56 AM 11/6/00 -0800, Seth Russell wrote:
>Graham Klyne wrote:
[...]
> > That said, I think the other approach (hanging off the propername
> > reification) is cleaner.
>
>I see no reason to reify here.

The reason is to distinguish between different _uses_ of a property:

   [SomeCity] --properName--> "Boston"

and

   [me] --properName--> "Graham"

are two different instances of "properName".  The only way I know in RDF to 
distinguish them is through reification.

#g


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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)