- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:42:37 +0100
- To: Yves Raimond <Yves.Raimond@bbc.co.uk>
- CC: RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Yves Raimond wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:15:52PM +0100, Nathan wrote: >> would it be needed? if we can union instead of merge, then surely we >> can do intersections, differences and all the rest without a >> problem? > > Indeed! Although the RDF Semantics aleady define a method to merge RDF graphs [1], and that doesn't make it trivial to compute differences of graphs... > > To be completely honest, I am not sure the definition there makes it easy to understand 'merges' as well (what does 'blank nodes in common' mean for two graphs?) - but maybe I am just missing something. I was thinking in terms of Pat Hayes' "A modest proposal concerning blank nodes." and the rather large follow up threads on both this list, and related blank nodes thread on semantic-web mailing list. Short version: scrap bnodes (from the semantics, doesn't ness. mean scrapping existentials) - by doing this, merge and a load of other stuff would disappear and make everything from equality through to basic set operations easy as pie.
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