Re: Blank Node Identifiers and RDF Dataset Normalization

On 02/25/2013 07:27 AM, Steve Harris wrote:
> Also, it's highly subjective whether having bNodes as graph identifiers is a "good thing", I have evidence from 3store that it's not, users found it generally weird (this was in the days before graph-spanning bNodes were common, perhaps that's a factor?), and didn't like the fact there there were graphs without stable identifiers. You *can* preserve bNode labels between (de)serialisations, but not many systems do, and you're not required to.

Just so we're clear, do you understand that the same would apply to this 
new URI scheme? A label that is a URI that is prefixed with 
"tag:w3.org,2013:dsid:" does not have to be preserved between 
(de)serializations either -- it can be rewritten with an entirely new 
suffix. That isn't going away ... that behavior is just now bleeding 
into the URI space. I would expect that existing systems would need to 
take this special behavior into account.

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Received on Monday, 25 February 2013 16:02:35 UTC