Re: Reification - whats best practice?

Leo Sauermann wrote:
> reification syntax is "not practical" as we see above in the thread.

Please - as previously pointed out [1] quads are not always a suitable 
replacement for reification.

On the other hand many tools group statements in some way, usually for 
management purposes, and some even allow meta data to be attached to 
these groups, graphs, models, or whatever they are called.

The problem, in my opinion, is that the standard way to exchange this 
kind of data requires writing every group of statements into a separate 
file, which may not always be practical.

This is not necessarily a problem with the RDF data model, but a problem 
with the serialization syntax, and one of many issues a future version 
will hopefully address.


[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2004Aug/0178.html