Re: Annotations in RDF-star: Vocabulary

On 5 Jan 2023, at 16:53, ddooss@wp.pl wrote:
The need to attach temporal, uncertainty, and provenance annotations to RDF is crucial for real-world applications, and it is a key feature of RDF-star.

I don’t really know anything about the past discussions about RDF-star, however I’d say that the use of reification as an annotation tool is misleading, for two reasons (one foundational, and the second practical):

  1.  annotation is a case of modal predication,
  2.  in RDF-star you reify only one triple, not a set of triples, which is the general case for annotations; N3 would be a more appropriate language to deal with annotations.

—e.