Re: Why does RDF* allow triples as objects?

On 06/09/2019 07:32, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
> On Thu 5 Sep 2019, 19:46 Andy Seaborne, <andy@apache.org 

>     In PG, don't edges have attributes, not edges-on-edges?, which (I
>     guess)
>     would be RDF*-triples with literals as objects.
> 
> 
> What do you call an attribute in RDF? My tentative definition would be: 
> a triple with a literal in the object position.

Yes, that fits the PG terminology.

> According to your point 
> above, that opens the door for triples in objet position :-)

:-)

While <<>>-triples have the characteristic of literals (abstraction) of 
describing the triple, it is another step to extend the RDF data model 
by placing them in the set of literal terms.

     Andy

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