Re: Web Semantics of Datasets (v0.2)

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
> 

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