Re: How is RDF* supposed to work with Linked Data?

On 5/02/2020 08:15, Jeen Broekstra wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 9:03 AM Martynas Jusevičius 
> <martynas@atomgraph.com <mailto:martynas@atomgraph.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've read Kurt Cagle's post:
>     https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-graph-merger-property-graphs-semantic-kurt-cagle/
>
>     The reification looks neat. But it seems to me that Linked Data* would
>     be broken.
>
>
> I think /breaking/ it is too strong, but you're right that the reified 
> triple itself can not be directly referenced outside the local 
> context. However, it is not unique in that respect, it's somewhat 
> similar to how blank nodes are treated: you can only reference them 
> indirectly (by means of specifying the relations in which they occur).
>
>     The idea with Linked Data is to follow the links. But <<city:_Seattle
>     city:isConnectedTo city:_SanFranciso>> has no URI, so how should we
>     address it on the web?
>
>
> You can't follow a link to the reified statement itself, but you can 
> decompose to get to its constituent parts of course, and follow those 
> links.

Yes, the Concise Bounded Description (of resources like city:_Seattle) 
could include its reified triples.

Holger