Re: RDF* vs RDF vs named graphs

On 11/29/20 7:42 PM, Patrick J Hayes wrote:
> 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


+1


Kingsley

>
>> 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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