Re: <sandro> PatHayes, can you formally define g-box for us?

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>wrote:

>
> >> That seems wrong. “Identifies” and “denotes” are distinct mechanisms,
> but it has always been the goal to align them wherever possible. The
> phrasing above seems to explicitly require that they are different – a URI
> “identifies” one thing but “denotes” another. That's bad.
> >
> > Why is it bad if identify is not identical with denote?
>
> Because “identifies” is how the web works – it's the basis for virtually
> all uses of URIs outside of the narrow domain of RDF.
>
> As an example, it makes sense to a PUT to a graph store, but it doesn't
> make sense to PUT to a g-snap. We couldn't say “<u> :accessAllowedFor <ian>”
> without breaking RDF Semantics, for example.
>
>
Yes, you can't PUT to a g-snap because they are immutable sets. You can PUT
to a g-box and <u> can identify a g-box.


Best,
> Richard


Ian

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