Re: Web Semantics of Datasets (v0.2)

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:
>
> > Doesn't it make sense that when a TriG file says:
> >
> >   <http://example.org/a> { <s> <p> <o>. }
> >
> > it means that "http://example.org/a" names a g-box, and for the purposes
> > of this TriG file, that g-box should be understood as holding the graph
> > consisting of that triple?
> >
> > If not, then what do you think that TriG file means (or should mean) ?
>
> Well, the TriG document talks about 'named graphs' and refers to the Named
> Graph page, which says that the semantics are given in the
> Carroll/Bizer/Hayes/Stickler paper (though it does have a broken link, I
> must admit), which in turn is quite explicit that this means that the name
> URI names the *graph*, and indeed is a rigid designator of the graph. So, no
> g-boxes there.
>

I thought that the Named Graphs paper stated that the URI names the mapping
from the URI to the graph, not the graph itself.  Am I mistaken there?  Is
there a distinction between the two?

-Alex