Re: Revisiting RDF-star semantics (was Re: Why is the RDF-star working group standardising RDF 1.2 and SPARQL 1.2?)

Have there been discussions in the working group about the desired level of 
transparency?


peter



On 1/31/23 08:45, Doerthe Arndt wrote:
> Dear Antoine,
>
> We had discussions at the very beginning of the RDF-star working group 
> whether or not blank nodes are to be transparent. If we accept total 
> opacity, your solution would be indeed very nice and - as you said - we 
> could still add a condition to your mapping that two isomorphic rdf-star 
> triples should map to the same resource. I just understood from the previous 
> discussions in this group that we would like to have that:
>
> << _:a :p :o >> :x :y . _:a :p :o.
>
> entails
>
> << _:b :p :o >> :x :y . _:b :p :o.
>
> and does not entail
>
> << _:b :p :o >> :x :y . _:a :p :o.
>
> Is that still the case?
>
> I think the most critical cases are the ones were we also assert the quoted 
> triple. As Peter mentioned, these blank nodes are what makes this whole 
> modeling complicated (and of course the literals, but that is a separate 
> story).
>
> Kind regards,
> Dörthe
>
>
>
>
>> Am 31.01.2023 um 13:45 schrieb Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr>:
>>
>> Le 27/01/2023 à 20:57, Peter F. Patel-Schneider a écrit :
>>> This has to be done carefully if blank nodes are to be transparent.
>>
>> As described in my previous email, my proposal is to make everything in an 
>> embedded triple completely opaque.
>>
>> Just like:
>>
>> <http://x.eu/?s=_%3Ab&p=http%3A%2F%2Fx.eu%2Fp&o=%2201%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aint 
>> <http://x.eu/?s=_%3Ab&p=http%3A%2F%2Fx.eu%2Fp&o=%2201%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aint>>
>>
>> could be a way of referring to, or being related to, the triple:
>>
>> _:b <http://x.eu/p> "01"^^xsd:int .
>>
>> and a system could extract the parameters of the URI to do interesting 
>> things with them, but as the semantics is concerned, there is no a priori 
>> relation between the URI and the triple, nor between the URI and the 
>> components of the triple.
>>
>> --AZ
>>
>>> peter
>>> On 1/27/23 13:30, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>>>> On 27/01/2023 11:49, Antoine Zimmermann wrote:
>>>>> (*) RDF-star basic semantics would be defined on any RDF-entailment 
>>>>> regime by adding a mapping IT from embedded triples to the set of 
>>>>> resources IR. Under this basic semantics, embedded triples simply act as 
>>>>> distinct names, as if they were IRIs. This does not preclude extensions 
>>>>> where the internal structure of the embedded triples makes a difference.
>>>> I like that.
>>>>
>>>> Would you mind developing this further?
>>>>
>>>> pa
>>>>
>>>> PS: also, the https://github.com/w3c/rdf-semantics repo is available for 
>>>> PRs ;-)
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Antoine Zimmermann
>> ISI - Institut Henri Fayol
>> École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
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>> 42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2
>> France
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>

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