Re: Next weeks discussions and decision-making for RDF Star WG

On Nov 11, 2023, at 03:23 PM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net> wrote:
> Regarding the different possibilities outlined above: RDF is a system for describing graphs/datasets composed of triples/statements.

This sentence is problematic in many ways.

"Triples" and "statements" are generally interchangeable terms.

RDF is a system for describing *anything* with triples/statements.

However, "graph" and "dataset" are *not* generally interchangeable 
terms, as is suggested by the above.  

Graphs are composed of triples/statements.

Datasets are composed of graphs.


> IMHO, the fundamental building block should be a graph


The fundamental building block of RDF is and IMHO must remain 
a *triple*.

Graphs are certainly necessary, as soon as data gets at all 
complicated, temporal, multiply sourced, etc, but since graphs 
are composed of triples, graphs cannot be the fundament.

Otherwise, I largely agree with what you said, and could 
probably go along with any of your numbered options. At this
point, we *probably* need to choose an option that requires
less work hours, and we *definitely* need to choose an option
that lays the fewest roadblocks in front of (potential) future 
work, which seems near inevitable and hopefully would be the
focus of a near-future WG charter.

It seems to me that we will need pro/con columns for each of 
the numbered options to make much progress from here. I'm
certain that I see tradeoffs with each, though it's more than
I can do state them just now.

Ted





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