- From: Reto Bachmann-Gmür <rbg@talis.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:18:05 +0200
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- CC: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, public-owl-dev@w3.org
Sandro Hawke wrote: > ... > > It often seems to me that bnodes should have been left out of RDF. > They're useful, but also painful. (Or maybe, all things considered, > RDF should have been left out of RDF. :-) > If we want to keep RDF but drop something, there's only named nodes we can drop without loosing expressiveness. We would have to introduce an inverse functional property pointing to a URI-Literal. This would also make the owl:sameAs statement obsolete (it would just be one b-nodes with multiple name-properties). Another advantage would be that there are less arbitrary choices to take when describing a world with things with multiple names, currently you can arbitrarily decide which properties to associate with which of the same resources (the concept of having multiple things being the same, seems counter-intuitive to me anyway). reto -- Reto Bachmann-Gmür Talis Information Limited Book your free place now at Talis Insight 2007 www.talis.com/insight Find out more about Talis at www.talis.com Shared InovationTM Any views or personal opinions expressed within this email may not be those of Talis Information Ltd.
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