Re: RDF* semantics

On 8/8/19 6:13 AM, Olaf Hartig wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 12:04 -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> But that's just another RDF sentence/statement constructed from blank
>>>> nodes (indefinite pronouns): 
>>>>
>>>> @prefix : <#> . 
>>>>
>>>> [ a foaf:Person; foaf:name "Alice"] :claims [a foaf:Person; foaf:name
>>>> "Bob"; foaf:age "23"^^xsd:integer] . 
>>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> It states that a Person named "Alice" :claims a Person named "Bob" has
>> age 23 expressed as in integer.
> I disagree. It states that a Person named "Alice" :claims something and
> this something is of rdf:type foaf:Person. So, what she is claiming is a
> person rather than being about a person.


I hope you are not interpreting :clams somewhat whimsically, since I
didn't actually assert that the rdfs:range of :claims is an
rdf:Statement instance in my original example sentence. I could have
written my example as follows, to be more precise:

@prefix : <#> . 

:claims a rdf:Property ;
        rdfs:range owl:Thing . 

[ a foaf:Person; foaf:name "Alice"] :claims [a foaf:Person; foaf:name
"Bob"; foaf:age "23"^^xsd:integer] . 


If on the other hand I had stated:

@prefix : <#> . 

:claims a rdf:Property ;
        rdfs:range owl:Thing . 

[ a foaf:Person; foaf:name "Alice"] :claims [a foaf:Person; foaf:name
"Bob"; foaf:age "23"^^xsd:integer] . 


Then I would be articulating what you assumed, and my sentence would then be incorrect :)

BTW -- I can also do all of this in a document (as per SPARQL Named
Graphs) and just pepper the document with additional metadata for
provenance purposes. Basically, why aren't  SPARQL Named Graphs a viable
solution to this problem i.e., RDF stays as is for data definition while
languages such as SPARQL handle operations on RDF structured data?


>
>> [...]
>>> I guess what you actually wanted to write was something
>>> like the following:
>>>
>>> [ a foaf:Person; foaf:name "Alice"]
>>>            :claims [ a rdf:Statement ;
>>>                      rdf:subject   :Bob ;
>>>                      rdf:predicate foaf:age ;
>>>                      rdf:object    "23"^^xsd:integer ] . 
>>
>> No, that is just a reified version of my initial statement.
> Are you saying that you consider the set of triples serialized as this
> piece of Turtle to be semantically equivalent to the set of triples
> serialized in the piece of Turtle above?


Of course not.


Kingsley

>
>> [...]
>>> By the definition of the RDF* data model, every RDF graph is an RDF*
>>> graph. Additionally, by the definition of the RDF*-to-RDF mapping, every
>>> RDF* graph can be viewed as an RDF graph.
>> Sorta, but this is serious work to be done explaining all of this in a
>> manner that prevents the confusion I fear.
> Point taken.
>
> Olaf
>
>
>

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