Re: Blank nodes must DIE! [ was Re: Blank nodes semantics - existential variables?]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 6:33 PM Jeen Broekstra <jeen@fastmail.com> wrote:

> how does this bit of JSON fit into the conceptual model? How is it stored,
> and how is it queried and/or referenced? Is it a single node in the graph?
> Then how is it different from just having a literal with a JSON string as
> its lexical value? Or if it's a node with several associated properties,
> how is it different from just having any collection of statements with a
> shared subject (blank node or IRI) that together form the object value?
>
> It's basically an unpacked literal, to steal Pat's term. It's different
from a literal though because (as far as I'm aware) there isn't a standard
way to structure the string component of a literal. And it's different from
a bnode because you don't need a bnode ID.

I haven't used Turtle, but that looks close enough, yes 😂 So if it's
already possible to do what I was proposing using Turtle, I guess there's
no need to change RDF literals, my bad.

Anthony