- From: Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:59:40 -0700
- To: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
- Cc: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>, public-hydra@w3.org
On Aug 19, 2014, at 6:24 AM, Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be> wrote: >> That's true and one of the reasons I would actually prefer to get rid of >> those Turtle artifacts.. Anyway I asked a while ago to add those angle >> brackets to make it compatible with Turtle. Unfortunately no one commented that. > > For all IRIs? I don't see the point in that. > It makes things more complicated without adding value. > >> We seem to get stuck here. Any suggestions how we could move forward? (this >> is a question for everyone) > > Let me try to help by rephrasing the problem. > > a) We need to distinguish between IRIs and literals. > i.e., the text “http://www.hydra-cg.com/” is different from > the IRI http://www.hydra-cg.com/. > > b) For literals, we should be able to add a type or a language. > > Nothing more is necessary; delimiting and escaping already happens. > This contrasts with Turtle, where delimiting of multiple fields is needed, > and where IRIs also need to be distinguished from prefixed names. > > > The syntax we currently have is: > - surround literals in double quotes > - signify data types with @ and types with ^^ > > This seems to be a minimal solution, > with the added benefit that the '@' and '^^' symbols look familiar. > There is, however, no other resemblance with N-Triples / Turtle. > > Do we agree or disagree on this syntax? +1 Gregg > (Perhaps it's best to talk about names after this.) > > Best, > > Ruben
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