RE: (proposal) was Re: defn of Named Graph

On Thursday, October 03, 2013 5:53 PM, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> On 03/10/13 16:01, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
> > +1 but...
> >
> > ... as I've just re-read the definition of RDF source in Concepts, it
> > appears that its definition is wrong (or at least inconsistent):
> >
> >     We informally use the term RDF source to refer to a persistent yet
> > mutable
> >     source or container of RDF graphs. An RDF source is a resource that
may
> > be
> >     said to have a state that can change over time. A snapshot of the
state
> > can
> >     be expressed as an RDF graph
> >
> > So a RDF source may return*multiple*  RDF graphs, i.e., a dataset but at
the
> > same time it is possible to express a snapshot as a*single* RDF*graph*.
> 
> I don't read "mutable source or container of RDF graphs." as saying it
> will return all of them, only that it can contain different ones.  The
> "snapshot" text seems to make it return one at a time.

Hmm... I see your point but I still find it very confusing.


> "source or container of [an] RDF graph" (singular) would imply that the
> container state can't chnage over time.

Why? It would just contain/return a single graph at any time. That doesn't
mean that it always has to contain/return the same graph.


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Markus Lanthaler
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Received on Thursday, 3 October 2013 16:27:54 UTC