RE: NQuads

Hi Hugh, David,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Booth [mailto:david@dbooth.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:35 PM
> To: public-lod@w3.org
> Subject: Re: NQuads
> 
> On 01/20/2017 02:36 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> . . .
> > Am I misunderstanding the NQuad document, or should there be
> > (presumably) 3 different blank nodes here?
> 
> It looks to me like it should have been 3 different blank nodes.  The TriG spec
> explicitly states:
> https://www.w3.org/TR/trig/#terms-blanks-nodes
> "BlankNodes sharing the same label in differently labeled graph statements
> are considered to be the same BlankNode."
> 
> And the RDF Semantics document discusses shared (and non-shared) blank
> nodes:
> https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-mt/#unions_merges
> 
> David Booth
> 

Given the example for repeated use of the same blank node label in the N-Quads
spec demonstrates the same blank node label used across two named graphs, I would
say the WebDataCommons N-Quads file could be improved.

Regards,
John

Received on Friday, 20 January 2017 23:31:15 UTC