Re: [Graphs] Proposal for Named Graph Semantics

On 4/8/11 12:11 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> On 8 Apr 2011, at 16:32, Antoine Zimmermann wrote:
>> This is what Pat called "poking a g-box". Poking a g-box is sometimes HTTP dereferencing the IRI that identifies the g-box. Sometimes, it's just returning what's in the curly brackets in a TriG document. Sometimes it's whatever triples attached to a certain IRI in a Quad file. Sometimes, it's getting the graph represented by a Jena Model in memory.
> +1.
>
> That's why I'm in favour of defining *only* an abstract syntax that pairs IRI and g-snap, without constraining what the relationship is.
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> If I give you a TriG document, or tell you about my SPARQL store, I would probably say: “Look, I poked a bunch of g-boxes (via their IRIs), and here's the g-snaps I got from each.”
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
+1

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