Re: R2RML - SQL string representations

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>wrote:

> - SPARQLing for plain literals is easier on users
>

This seems most compelling to me.

Related question then... it seems that by default SQL strings are
represented in the RDF output as plain literals. This can be changed by
specifying a desired output type. But, there is no way to explicitly say
that it should be represented as a plain literal. Following the principle
that the default behavior should be chosen from the set of available
options, it seems there should be a way to explicitly request that a value
be represented as a plain literal. This same property could be used to
request that non-string SQL values be represented as plain literals in the
RDF output.

-David