Re: A use case for graph literals: Schemapedia (ISSUE-5)

On 11 Apr 2011, at 14:33, Steve Harris wrote:
> I'm not sure in this situation you'd want example fragments to be handled as a named graph type of first class object, but maybe I'm missing the use-case.
> 
> Suppose I write
> 
> <some-schema> a :Schema ;
>              :example "@prefix some: <http://some.schema.example> .\n<bob> some:has <Thing> .\n" .
> 
> Do I want those example triples to be accessible for e.g. in SPARQL queries?

In this particular case I don't think so.

> Or do I just want a convenient datatype to stash the literal text in RDF?

Yes. It would be more … accurate … to declare explicitly that this literal is a Turtle literal. That's all.

It's not a particularly powerful use case for graph literals, but a real one that I happened to come across.

Best,
Richard


> 
> - Steve
> 
> On 2011-04-08, at 11:32, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> 
>> I just had a conversation with Ian Davis on Twitter that yielded a use case for defining datatype IRIs for graph literals. I thought I'd share it as input into ISSUE-5 [1].
>> 
>> He uses Turtle snippets as literals in SchemaPedia [2]. SchemaPedia is a site that helps find RDF vocabularies, and it lists example usage snippets for the vocabularies. The site's back-end is RDF-based. Turtle literals are used to store the examples, as well as change events when examples are modified. See [3] for a typical change event.
>> 
>> Currently Ian uses plain literals, because no datatype was readily available.
>> 
>> The idea of abusing Ivan's format URIs from [4] came up.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Richard
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/5
>> [2] http://schemapedia.com/
>> [3] http://api.talis.com/stores/openvocab/meta?about=http://open.vocab.org/changes/f07ca76699a536dd38b5cbbbe1ba181d&output=rdf
>> [4] http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/
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