Re: [GRAPH] graph deadlock?

On 21 Dec 2011, at 08:54, Antoine Zimmermann wrote:

> Le 20/12/2011 21:55, Steve Harris a écrit :
>> [skip]
>> 
>> I think most(?) people agree that a URI should denote/name/something
>> a graph, or some other entity, but not both at the same time. The
>> problem is that people don't follow this rule in RDF now*, don't
>> follow it in quads as implemented now, and I don't think they will
>> follow it in the future.
>> 
>> So, does that break RDF, or does it break their applications?
>> 
>> If it just breaks people's applications, then we can write what we
>> would like to happen in the document, and people who do the Right
>> Thing™ will be fine, and people who don't will suffer in some way.
>> 
>> If on the other hand it breaks RDF, it's probably already too late,
>> and we have a problem.
>> 
>> - Steve
>> 
>> * e.g. http://blog.iandavis.com/2010/11/04/is-303-really-necessary/
> 
> I haven't read the whole post but where do you see a URI which is used to denote two different things at the same time? How do you know it denotes 2 things simultaneously?

Well, if I have a document like:

<http://example.com/foo> a <Thing> .

and then I dereference http://example.com/foo, and get a 200 and a document back, isn't http://example.com/foo both an instance and a document?

Maybe I missed something though.

- Steve

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