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RDF-ISSUE-178: CR comment: RDF 1.1: "Some properties may change over time." [RDF Concepts]
http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/178
Raised by: Thomas Baker
On product: RDF Concepts
Raised on the mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2013Dec/0084.html
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A minor point, but the wording of the following bullet point in Section 5 of
Concepts [1] seems ambiguous:
Some properties may change over time. A relationship that holds between two
resources at one time may not hold at another time.
The first sentence can too easily be read as saying that properties
_themselves_ change, whereas: "An IRI, once minted, should never change its
intended referent". Perhaps something like the following is intended:
A relationship that holds between two resources at one time (i.e., a
property) may not hold at another time.
This fits with the earlier characterization of a property as "a resource that
can be thought of as a binary relation". [2]
Tom
[1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#change-over-time
[2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#data-model
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