Re: Editorial thread for BGP matching

On 25 Jan 2006, at 18:55, Enrico Franconi wrote:

>
> On 25 Jan 2006, at 18:41, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
>> Enrico Franconi wrote:
>>> Another proposed simplification:
>>> Currently:
>>> Definition:  Scoping Set
>>> A Scoping Set B is a set of RDF terms formed by the combination of:
>>>      * all URIs
>>>      * blank node names
>>> This could just be:
>>> A Scoping Set is an arbitrary subset of the RDF terms.
>>
>> I thought the point was that it is always all IRIs (oops s/URI/ 
>> IRI) and some set of blank nodes (but not all of them).  That then  
>> ties to "The identifiers introduced by S all occur in B." in the  
>> BGP matching defn.
>
> Well, yes, you are right.

More precisely: in sparql we have all the B includes only the bnodes  
in G'; then, we have to leave room for future extensions. For  
example, for OWL data queries, B does not include any bnode; and  
there is an understanding of RDF entailment where you may want to  
have all bnodes in B.

--e.

Received on Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:59:31 UTC