Re: complete graphs

On 9/30/2011 8:44 AM, Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider wrote:
> From: Sandro Hawke<sandro@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: complete graphs
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:31:26 -0500
>
> [...]
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>> The restriction on the fourth column is that the fourth column is the
>> web address of a place (a g-box) currently serving that triple.
>> (That's the architecture I'm arguing for in this morning's post to
>> public-rdf-prov [1].)
>
> You are going to build this into the formal meaning of RDF?
> That's a non-starter for me.

If I understand it correctly, I think it's a non-starter for me as well. 
This would prohibit non-HTTP URIs from being used to as the 4th element 
in a quad (i.e. as the identifier of a named graph)?

Lee

>
>> The issue about completeness is that if I want to say, as in [1], that I
>> agree or disagree with a statement (or otherwise build on it), it's
>> important the readers see the whole statement (or know that they are
>> seeing only a partial statement).  It's even more important for me to
>> know if I'm seeing the whole statement before I say if I agree.
>
> Please, let's try to be more precise.  In particular, there is
> rdf:Statement, so "statement" is something that has to be carefully
> used.
>
>>        -- Sandro
>>
>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-prov/2011Sep/0023
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> peter
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