decisions

My 2 cents on which decisions will have to be made:

- type or token
  (and if token: direct or indirect identification)
- asserted or unasserted
- referentially opaque or transparent
- triple or graph


That’s many possible combinations and of course not every combination makes sense.
My preference is for TWO primitives:

- (nested) graph
- asserted
- referentially transparent
- token, directly identified

AND

- graph (literal)
- unasserted
- referentially opaque
- type

The first one for annotation and qualification and LPG compatability, the second one for keeping stuff under wraps, for versioning and for all sorts of semantics, quotation and otherwise. One of the underlying problems of RDF-star is that it tries to cover both needs in one primitive.

Regarding process: I can agree that the WG takes too long to make decisions, but I don’t think that we will be able to make a well informed decision this Thursday, because the problem is just too complex for that. And that doesn’t even include my concern that we haven’t discussed graphs well enough, by any measure. We can’t suddenly make up in 1 month for blockades that have been going on for years.


Best,
Thomas

Received on Tuesday, 5 December 2023 16:03:50 UTC