- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:06:49 -0500
- To: public-rdf-star@w3.org
On 1/21/22 9:40 AM, Jerven Tjalling Bolleman wrote: > When to use RDF-star and when to use N-Ary a personal perspective. > > RDF-Star is to be used when the relationship itself is enough for the data user in the vast majority of their use cases. > . . . > When this evidence supporting such a relationship becomes the key concept for the users then it is time to go N-Ary. Excellent explanation! And this brings up a major concern that I have about rdf-star: it means that we would have at least 3 *different* syntaxes for representing relationships of different arities. It sure would be nice if the expressiveness of rdf-star and labeled property graphs were treated uniformly as mere sub-cases of a *standard* n-ary relationship syntax (which we do not currently have). FWIW, some ideas for standardizing n-ary relations have been collected here, though the problem is far from solved: https://github.com/w3c/EasierRDF/issues/20 David Booth
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