Re: A few thoughts on RDF-star, Reification, and Labeled Property Graphs

Hello all. I just lurk on this list, hoping to learn enough to use RDF-start/RDF1.2 when it is published and this is something I have been wondering about:

On 16/04/2024 17:07, Thompson, Bryan wrote:

> But this same reifier, multiple triples design would allow multiple link types. It is in fact closer to named graphs, which are also just bundles of triples.

I'm aware of the long "we don't need RDF-star, just use named gaphs / rdf:Statement from RDF1.1" discussions and don't mean to revisit that, but I have wondered since it first came up, what is the difference between using same reifier for multiple triples of different types (as it was first introduced) and a named graph?

Phil

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