- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:27:37 -0400
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- CC: antoine.zimmermann@insa-lyon.fr, Alex Hall <alexhall@revelytix.com>, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
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. > > 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 Kingsley -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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