Re: Brief comment on sd:name

Apologies for following up. At a conference, and thought I'd revisit.

On 22 Jun 2010, at 18:23, Damian Steer wrote:

> Looking at:
> 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-service-description-20100601/>
> 
> it seems that sd:name is supposed to be a resource:
> 
> <sd:namedGraph>
>    <rdf:Description>
>        <sd:name rdf:resource="http://www.example/named-graph"/>
> ...
> 
> However if:
> 
> <http://www.example/named-graph> owl:sameAs <http://www.example/another-named-graph>
> 
> then also:
> 
> <sd:namedGraph>
>    <rdf:Description>
>        <sd:name rdf:resource="http://www.example/another-named-graph"/>

That entailment, on reflection, looks perfectly fine:

"The IRI identifies a resource, and the resource is represented 
by a graph (or, more precisely: by a document that serializes a graph)." [1]

There is no connection between graph name and graph (which was my concern), however the nature of that relationship is such that we can talk about graph being identified by resources rather than literals.

Sorry for the noise.

Damian

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#namedGraphs>

Received on Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:21:13 UTC