Re: [TF-ENT] Querying datasets with default plus named graphs

On 8 Oct 2009, at 11:34, Birte Glimm wrote:
>
>> It also raises an issue on the RIF side. RIF rules cannot be  
>> expressed in
>> RDF. How would one add RIF rules to an entailement regime if we  
>> wanted to
>> cover RIF? It might be a showstopper for that case:-(
>
> In my total RIF naivity, I would assume you can say:
>
> SELECT ?o FROM <http://example.org/myrules.rif> WHERE { :s :p ?o . }
>
> Here I assume that myrules.rif contains the rules and references
> (imports) for the relevant RDF graphs. In the RIF OWL compatibility
> doc it says:

I think that would limit the answers to being from triples that are in  
the .rif file, which if it's not RDF would be nothing.

But, I would have thought you could tell the store to apply RIF to  
some graph(s) - just like you would apply OWL/RDFS/whatever, using an  
external mechanism. Then query over those graphs as you would for any  
other entailment regime.

I may well be misunderstanding the problem though.

- Steve

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