basic semantics of triple terms

The Semantics Task Force discussed the basic semantics of triple terms at the 
meeting on 25 October 2024 and decided that it was a good idea to have a 
working group decision on which way to go in the very near future so that the 
significant changes can be made to RDF Semantics and RDF Concepts to fully 
support triple terms and how they are to be used in RDF 1.2.

The current working group decision is defined in 
https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg/wiki/RDF-star-%22minimal-baseline%22, where 
rdf:reifies is the only property that links to triple terms.  An alternative 
that has been defined, in 
https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg/wiki/RDF-star-%22alternative-baseline%22, 
is to allow any property that is an instance of rdf:ReificationProperty (final 
name to be determined) to link to triple terms.

The issue https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg/issues/127 is basically about 
this difference and has pointers to more information and discussion on the 
difference between the approaches.  The decision to be made is whether one 
property (rdf:reifies) is allowed to link to triple terms, many properties are 
allowed, or only a very few properties are allowed (perhaps rdf:reifies and 
rdfs:states).


peter

Received on Friday, 25 October 2024 15:53:10 UTC