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Re: RDF-star use cases from Amazon Neptune

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 11:54:31 -0500
Message-ID: <4ed7101a-8025-03d7-9516-25050032196c@gmail.com>
To: public-rdf-star@w3.org

On 12/6/21 09:49, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 12/5/21 3:47 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:


...

>>
>> Anyone can do anything with anything.  But SPARQL and SPARQL* are are 
>> official.  In my opinion, you can't analyze RDF without taking SPARQL into 
>> account.  My opinion is that most uses of RDF graphs go through SPARQL and 
>> thus the behaviour of SPARQL is much more important than the RDF 
>> semantics.  So I would say that you can't consider RDF as strictly a 
>> non-counting logic.
>>
>> This is just like the situation with relational data bases. Although 
>> relational data bases are strictly defined as sets of tuples, SQL uses 
>> multi-sets in some places.
>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> What do you mean by "SPARQL* (a/k/a SPARQL-Star) has become official? 
> Naturally, the same question applies to RDF* (a/k/a RDF-Star).
>

What I mean is that SPARQL* has the same status (part of the WG docment) as 
RDF*.   That would have been a much better way of saying it.

peter
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