- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:34:29 +0100
- To: Thomas Steiner <tomac@google.com>
- Cc: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>, Hannes Mühleisen <hannes@muehleisen.org>
On 2011-04-05, at 16:35, Thomas Steiner wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> However, it looks like the sample data in [3] is a simple tree. Is it possible to add some more triples to it so that it expresses more of RDF graph nature? e.g. loops, diamonds, repeated references etc. >> >> Something like: >> >> <http://jondoe.example.org/#me> :address _:addr . >> <http://janedoe.example.org/#me> :address _:addr . >> >> _:addr :street "1 Some Street" ; >> :postcode "W1A 1AA" ; >> :city "The Metrop" ; >> :inhabitant <http://jondoe.example.org/#me>, <http://janedoe.example.org/#me> . > > This doesn't sound like a big problem (BTW, was this on the sample > graph Wiki? [1]). None of the serializations enforces inlining, so > shared/circular references can be realized just as you did in your > mark-up above in JSON using the particular blank node or node > referencing mechanics of each serialization, which is shown in, e.g., > the foaf:knows part. Does this respond to your doubt? Yes, absolutely. It's not obvious to someone who hasn't worked with those formats how to do references — they're not used in the examples. I think Andy's sample graph had these features, but not the one you used to base the example on. - Steve -- Steve Harris, CTO, Garlik Limited 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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