Re: scope of blank node identifiers and multiple graphs

Hi Andy,

> One document parses to produce one RDF dataset and the blank node should be the same where the same identifier is used.

damned, I thought that the scope of a blank node is the graph, not the dataset (so, I didn’t think it were possible to have the same blank node in 2 graphs). I now have to think about it. And maybe, get back to you on jeva-dev list.

Thanks

fps

> Le 30 janv. 2017 à 18:27, Andy Seaborne <andy@seaborne.org> a écrit :
> 
> 
> On 30/01/17 16:51, François-Paul Servant wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the spec
>> https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#identifying-blank-nodes
>> says that
>> "The blank node identifier is scoped to the document in which it is used.”
>> 
>> What happens when the same blank node identifier is used within 2 different graphs? There seems to be a conflict (or an ambiguity) with the usual interpretation of blank nodes identifiers in RDF.
>> 
>> Here is a test in the playground (2 blank nodes with same identifier _:b0 in different graphs)
>> 
>> http://json-ld.org/playground/#startTab=tab-normalized&json-ld=%7B%22%40graph%22%3A%5B%7B%22%40id%22%3A%22_%3Ab0%22%2C%22label%22%3A%22label%20of%20anon%20res%20in%20default%20graph%22%7D%2C%7B%22%40graph%22%3A%5B%7B%22%40id%22%3A%22_%3Ab0%22%2C%22label%22%3A%22label%20of%20anon%20res%20in%20graph%202%22%7D%2C%7B%22%40id%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fex.com%2Fs2%22%2C%22p%3A2%22%3A%7B%22%40id%22%3A%22_%3Ab0%22%7D%7D%5D%2C%22%40id%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fex.com%2Fg2%22%7D%2C%7B%22%40id%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fex.com%2Fs%22%2C%22p%22%3A%22_%3Ab0%22%7D%5D%2C%22%40context%22%3A%7B%22p%22%3A%7B%22%40id%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fex.com%2Fp%22%2C%22%40type%22%3A%22%40id%22%7D%2C%22label%22%3A%7B%22%40id%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23label%22%7D%7D%7D
>> 
>> 
>> Should the spec be interpreted as saying :
>> - there is one thing identified by “_:b0”. All statements in the document involving it refer to the same thing, whatever the @graph they are in
>> - there are 2 different things that should not be conflated (RDF point of view, as expressed in the N-Quads output)
>> - do what you want, I don’t care, only RDF-minded persons have this kind of concerns ;-)
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> fps
>> 
> 
> One document parses to produce one RDF dataset and the blank node should be the same where the same identifier is used.
> 
> N-Quads:
> [[
> A fresh RDF blank node is allocated for each unique blank node label in a document.
> ]]
> TriG:
> [[
> A blank node label represents the same blank node throughout the TriG document.
> ]]
> 
> Blank nodes can be used as graph names - those are not "in" a graph at all.
> 
> One graph can be a subset of another.
> 
>    Andy
>

Received on Monday, 30 January 2017 18:36:48 UTC