RE: Sloppy inference rules

On Thursday, November 01, 2012 6:56 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
 
> As Antoine notes, the OWL 2 group has faced the same issue for OWL 2
> RL. I do not see any problem doing that in this case either. I do not
> think we should reopen, at this point, the bnode-in-predicate and
> literal-in-subject issue and, with this, using this 'generalized
> triples for the rules' seems to be the clean approach...

Honestly it sounds a bit strange to me to simply accept that there is a
fundamental problem without trying to address it - especially considering
that the problem has been known since at least 2005 (2002?).
The other thing that worries me even more is the fact that a number of RDF
serialization formats are in the process of being standardized right now. At
least JSON-LD doesn't have this artificial restriction but that was heavily
criticized by the RDF WG and, as it seems at the moment, we will have to
introduce it.

I think there won't be a better point in time to fix this once for all.


Thanks,
Markus 

Received on Thursday, 1 November 2012 09:51:07 UTC