- From: Patrick J Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:42:18 -0600
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-rdf-star@w3.org" <public-rdf-star@w3.org>
I agree. When I first met the idea of RDF* I made this same point to Thomas, and we had some correspondence on the topic. I came to the conclusion that my expending effort towards the development of RDF* would be a waste of time. Pat > On Nov 29, 2020, at 4:43 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been thinking about the expressive power of RDF* related to the > expressive power of RDF, at least the versions of RDF* that have been proposed > so far. > > As far as I can tell anything that can be done in RDF* can be easily done in > RDF by using standard > RDF reification techniques, perhaps slightly modified (e.g., to account for > malformed literals), with extra properties linking to syntactic encodings to > achieve referential opacity. > > But named graphs are more expressive than RDF* in a certain sense, as named > graphs allow multiple "embedded" triples to be collected together. > > > > peter > > >
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