Re: function to find concise bounded graph for SPARQL Updates for dealing with blank nodes

On 1/24/14 6:46 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
> interesting! personally i find blank nodes giving me often hard time... 

There's a simple way to understand blank node, it goes like this:

RDF is a language [1] that enables encoding and decoding of information 
gleaned from observation. It is very much like natural language 
(conceptually) [2] but designed for the digital realm. A blank node 
provides the same functionality that a pronoun [3] delivers to natural 
language.

Links:

[1] http://bit.ly/1c3QeEc -- Language
[2] http://slidesha.re/1mBnvYy -- Data & Natural Language
[3] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pronoun -- Pronoun .

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Received on Friday, 24 January 2014 12:34:10 UTC