> On 23 Jan 2017, at 13:02, William Waites <ww@styx.org> wrote: > >> 1) Do the 'subdocuments' (each RDF block) have to be semantically >> consistent? > > Why should they be? It is already possible to make a single document that > is inconsistent (under some inference rules and theory of what it means to > be consistent such as not implying unsatisfiable statements). Agreed. We should not go into the issue of consistency in this case; we are just providing the tools to express triples. Not anything more. > >> 2) Can blank node identifiers be shared across RDF blocks and syntaxes? > > Personally, where I use blank nodes, I like to use the Turtle [] syntax sugar > so I don’t tend to explicitly give them names at all, but YMMV… I’d say if you > need to refer to something across documents (embedded in the same > container or not) then give it a URI. > > But there is a variant of this question where the answer is not so obvious. What > is the expected behaviour when the *same* graph (that contains pesky blank > nodes) is repeated in different syntaxes in the same document? > Why is that different (if all syntaxes refer to the same graph) as having such triples within the same serialization? Ivan > William Waites > Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science > School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > Informatics Forum 5.38, 10 Crichton St. > Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, Scotland > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Digital Publishing Technical Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704
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