Re: Back from the W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data

On 3/16/19 9:15 PM, William Van Woensel wrote:
> I think that having a lightweight notation (i.e., lacking quantifiers) 
> is an especially interesting aspect of N3. It allows developers to use 
> N3 at the level of complexity that suit their needs. Nevertheless, IMO 
> this also means outfitting N3 with the necessary constructs to suit more 
> complex use cases for developers who need them.

+1     I could not have stated it better!

> . . .
> Having rules operate on graphs instead of RDF stores may also point 
> towards the usefulness of e.g., scoped negation as failure and limiting 
> the scope of quantifiers (i.e., to a particular graph) (?) We had a 
> discussion <https://github.com/w3c/N3/issues/9#issuecomment-458874667> 
> on this on the GitHub page.

+1

David Booth

Received on Monday, 18 March 2019 17:17:33 UTC