- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:48:22 -0500
- To: Alex Hall <alexhall@revelytix.com>
- Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, public-rdf-wg <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
It actually names the named graph, ie the pair <URIref, graph>. This allows two copies of a graph to have different names. But it does not provide for g-boxes and updating and all that time-relative stuff. In a nutshell, g-boxes have state. Nothing else in current RDF or named graphs has state. Pat On Oct 12, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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