Re: Skolemization and RDF Semantics

On 2011-04-16, at 17:48, Ivan Herman wrote:
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> On Apr 16, 2011, at 16:46 , Steve Harris wrote:
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>> My suspicion is that the only way forward would be some text along the lines of: [with apologies for any abuse of terminology]
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>> Systems wishing to skolemise bNodes, and expose those skolem constants to external systems (e.g. in query results) SHOULD mint fresh a "fresh" (globally unique) URI for each bNode.
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>> All systems performing skolemisation SHOULD do so in a way that they can recognise the constants once skolemised, and map back to the source bNodes where possible.
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>> Systems which want their skolem constants to be identifiable by other systems SHOULD use the .well-known URI prefix.
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> And we would plug in Sandro's proposal here, right? Both the http: and the tag: versions or only the former? In case of the former we will have to register 'genid'.

We will have to register the "genid" .well-known tag in any case, and tag: might have to be amended to say that .well-known is reserved there too.

The key difference from what was on the table at the F2F is that the .well-known stuff is now only an option, rather than a SHOULD.

- Steve


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