Re: replies on named graphs? containers use case

> A few days ago, Kampman made an important remark about named graph 
> semantics but i havent seen any reply, did i miss some?
[answered separately]

> Also, i also would like to argue for the support for containers.
> For a very interesting use case (that i cant possibly solve without 
> query language support) see .
>
> http://giovanni.ea.unian.it/temp/rdftef.pdf

I can't seem to get there.

> Textual encoding using RDF (requiring chains of words/symbols)
>
> the fact that there is no knowledge on how to implement this 
> efficiently shouldnt probably be an issue? i guess they'll be 
> inefficient at first, but at least people can use them if needed.

You're not the first to write about collections/containers.
It's been on the WG issues list since last September...
  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#accessingCollections

but we're not planning to address it in this version

[[
RESOLVED: to postpone accessingCollections because 
      * our not standardizing it doesn't stop anybody from playing
      * none of the extant designs seems sufficiently mature

Clark/UMD, Fukushige/MEI, and 2 others abstaining
]]

If you have information the WG hasn't considered, please let
us know. As I say, I can't get to the rdftef thing. Maybe
I'll try again another day.

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Received on Friday, 15 April 2005 01:19:31 UTC