- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:04:09 +0000
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Cc: RDF-WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 11 Nov 2011, at 14:00, Andy Seaborne wrote: >> It actually works out exactly the same. It's really like this (pardon the ASCII art): >> >> :g ----xxx----> {ggg} >> | | >> denotes denotes >> | | >> v v >> thing ---yyy---> graph > > Good art - I can cope with morphism diagrams. (Brings back memories of my Riemann Surfaces course.) > > > The difference is that yyy isn't a property. xxx is an IRI. yyy is the property (relationship type) denoted by the IRI. You could add another arrow down the middle: :g -----xxx---> {ggg} | | | denotes denotes denotes | | | v v v thing ---yyy---> graph When xxx is owl:sameAs then we have a special case where “thing” and “graph” at the bottom are actually the same single thing, and both :g and {ggg} denote it. Richard
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