Re: RDF-ISSUE-140 (dataset-comparison): RDF Dataset Comparison (Ivan Herman) [RDF Concepts]

On Aug 9, 2013, at 2:43 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:

> On Friday, August 09, 2013 11:24 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> We had a long discussion some times ago and we concluded that graphs in
>> a dataset share bnodes. As a consequence, I believe Gavin's statement
>> seems to be the proper conclusion...
> 
> Yes, the graphs share bnodes but I'm not sure how that relates to the graph
> names. So you could as well argue that there are two sets of blank node
> identifiers and that in the examples below the mappings are
> 
> Example 1: _:y -> _:x (nodes) | _:y -> _:x (graphs)
> Example 2: _:y -> _:y (nodes) | _:y -> _:x (graphs)
> 
> Or do I miss something? As far as I understand it, there's no relationship
> between a blank node identifier used as graph name and a blank node
> identifier used as node (you could say they are in different scopes)

That is not my understanding. I guess this has not been formally decided, but your interpretation is so bizarre that I never even considered it before. For example, Sandro's use case of the default graph as metadata would not be possible with this interpretation. 

Pat

> from
> which I conclude that the same bnode id mappings can be mapped differently.
> 
> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 9, 2013, at 09:24 , "Markus Lanthaler"
>> <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Friday, August 09, 2013 12:20 AM, Gavin Carothers wrote:
>>>> For clarity
>>>> 
>>>> {
>>>> {
>>>>   _:y rdf:type ex:graphsIlike .
>>>> }
>>>> _:y {
>>>>   ex:a ex:b ex:c}
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> ########
>>>> 
>>>> {
>>>> {
>>>>   _:x rdf:type ex:graphsIlike .
>>>> }
>>>> _:x {
>>>>   ex:a ex:b ex:c}
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> MUST be isomorphic if we expect to have test cases for parsing
>>>> datasets.
>>> 
>>> Gavin, could you please explain why!? And also why the first dataset
>> isn't isomorphic to
>>> 
>>> {
>>> {
>>>   _:y rdf:type ex:graphsIlike .
>>> }
>>> _:x {
>>>   ex:a ex:b ex:c}
>>> }
>>> }
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Markus
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Markus Lanthaler
>>> @markuslanthaler
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----
>> Ivan Herman, W3C
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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> 

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