Re: Deprecate most "native" RDF serializations

On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 19:50 -0700, Gavin Carothers wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 11:22 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote:
> >>
> >> """
> >> TURTLE Lite would effectively be a subset of TURTLE - N-Quads, or
> >> something that would be N-Quads-like (allowing for either "s p o" or
> >> "s
> >> p o c" statements).
> >> """
> >>
> >> Gavin has asserted that TURTLE already supports N-Triples... now all
> >> we
> >> need to do is to make N-Quads a subset of TURTLE and we're good for
> >> TURTLE Lite.
> >
> > Since a subset can't include things not in its superset, I guess you're
> > saying that Turtle should include the dataset/quad stuff?  Do you have a
> > proposed syntax for that?   I don't think adding the label after the
> > triple, as in N-Quads, works well in Turtle...
> >
> >  s p o1 g, o2 g; p2 o3 g.
> >
> > Nah.   Maybe just like trig, where you have a triple you could have
> > label + { graph }.   Or maybe a GRAPH keyword like in SPARQL.  I kind of
> > like that.
> 
> Yes, had proposed adding @graph to Turtle. There wasn't support for
> doing so. Too much of a change to the language.

It might be more accurate to say there was more opposition than support
at the time.   There was some support.   Manu might be offering more --
and, more to the point, he's making a new argument that might
potentially be supported by data.   (He's arguing for simplicity to
appeal to potential adopters.  RDF experts are in some cases the worst
people to assess that kind of argument.)

Other than backward compatibility -- which we're breaking on other
places already, can you think of any reason we're using @prefix instead
of SPARQL's PREFIX?

  -- Sandro

> >
> > Steve has argued very strongly, and Andy just mentioned again, that
> > people want to know from the mime type whether they'll be getting
> > triples or quads.   Steve sees it as a big security issue -- you don't
> > want to load quads in from the Web and have them over-write your
> > crawler's internal state metadata or data that was supposedly fetched
> > from other address. I'm not convinced, myself, not at all, because I
> > think one needs to have an "untrusted" mode of loading quads that
> > renames all the graphs.
> >
> >    -- Sandro
> >
> >
>

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