RE: Reification - whats best practice?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of ext Eric Jain
> Sent: 30 August, 2004 09:40
> To: Leo Sauermann
> Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org; danbri@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Reification - whats best practice?
> 
> 
> 
> ... 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, 

Agreed.

> but a problem 
> with the serialization syntax, and one of many issues a 
> future version 
> will hopefully address.

And until the official, "blessed" RDF serialization does, folks
needing to interchange multiple sets (graphs) of statements in
a single serialized document can use TriX [1]  

 ;-)

Patrick

[1] http://www.w3.org/2004/03/trix/


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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
patrick.stickler@nokia.com