Re: any good hacks for these?

From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>
>
> 1. A context thing. Say we have an RDF file containing a set of
assertions,
> and we want to load this into our system. The only thing is, we need to
know
> that these assertions came from the same (identified) source. Internally
we
> can use a quad type model or whatever, but if we want to merge these
> assertions with another set and pass them on, how can this be done whilst
> maintaining an association between the source and the assertions?

I would describe the source of the statements on a reified statement node;
leaving the triples themselves unadorned.

A r B.
[ type Statement; subject A; predicate r;  object B;
source <http://foo/doc >]

The reified statements could be include in the merged doc or in a separate
doc.

> 3. Weightings/confidence factors. I'll probably (0.5) be having cocoa
> shortly. Or even, isEquivalentToMaybe[-.1].  Any neat approaches?

Danny [subProperty drinks; probability 0.5] cocoa.

Seth Russell
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