Re: owl:sameAs/referential opacity Re: Can RDFstar be defined as only syntactic sugar on top of RDF (Re: weakness of embedded triples)

I have just raised a GitHub issue to discuss details of the mapping 
between triples and URIs:

     https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star/issues/23

Holger


On 10/30/2020 9:54 AM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
>
> On 10/30/2020 8:25 AM, thomas lörtsch wrote:
>> But introducing a new node type to me feels like a much graver 
>> intervention into the RDF semantics than defining a mapping from 
>> statements to IRIs. 
>
> Yes exactly. We are all thinking out loud here and the outcome is 
> likely going to be some glued-on patch that isn't going to be perfect 
> from a theoretical POV. But the fact that RDF is already widely used 
> and implemented is an opportunity, not a problem. Therefore, I think 
> the minor issue with the potential leakage when triple IRIs with blank 
> nodes get written to Turtle is perfectly acceptable and pragmatic. A 
> simple solution would be that the applications throw an error or a 
> warning if they encounter such triples, so going from TTL* to TTL will 
> simply not happen in practice.
>
> Holger
>
>

Received on Friday, 30 October 2020 00:19:18 UTC