Re: shapes as classes

The implicit connection here appears to be outside the scope of RDF.  If this 
connection is a vital part of the story, then I don't think that the story is 
in scope of the working group.

peter

On 12/19/2014 08:10 AM, Arthur Ryman wrote:
> ericw3c@gmail.com wrote on 12/18/2014 01:44:15 PM:
>
>>> Yes, this means that OSLC resource shapes can only describe OO-like
>>> connected graphs. That is a limitation which I pointed out in [1]. I
> hope
>>> this WG will define a spec that can handle disconnected graphs.
>> What are some examples of when this is needed?
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/shapes/#disconnected-graphs
>>>
>>>
>
> Eric,
>
> I provided a user story to illustrate a real-world example of a
> disconnected graph [1]. This example is written in JSON-LD. The designer
> of this resource made the point that we need to appeal to the new wave of
> developers who have adopted JSON for data interchange. Those developers
> want simple, uncluttered formats. The original design used plain old JSON.
> I advocated for the use of JSON-LD by demonstrating that it didn't require
> too much extra clutter. Adding explicit links between the
> acc:AccessContexList node and the acc:AccessContext nodes would make the
> graph connected, but those nodes are already implicitly related by virtue
> of being in the same graph, so why add the clutter?
>
> [1]
> https://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/wiki/User_Stories#S35:_Describe_disconnected_graphs
>
>

Received on Friday, 19 December 2014 18:16:32 UTC