Re: Annotation syntax [was: SPARQL* test suite]

On 9/7/20 3:42 AM, Olaf Hartig wrote:
> On lördag 5 september 2020 kl. 18:19:40 CEST Jos De Roo wrote:
>> Am not really close to this discussion, but still, I tried to implement
>> things in N3 and it
>> appears to me that:
>> {:a :b :c} :p :o. could be SA mode
> 
> No. This is a statement about a graph, where this graph happens to consist of
> a single triple (:a, :b, :c). In contrast, RDF* (no matter which of the two
> modes) is about making statements about individual triples.

But this is an unfortunate limitation of RDF*.  It is much more useful 
and general to be able to annotate multiple statements at once, as can 
be done in N3.   I think this is an important limitation to correct 
prior to any standardization.

David Booth

Received on Monday, 7 September 2020 15:07:36 UTC