Re: Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web

Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
 > prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
 > prefix sc: <http://purl.org/science/owl/sciencecommons/>
 > select  ?s ?p ?o ?by
 > from <http://purl.org/commons/hcls/proto>
 > where
 > { ?s ?p ?o.
 >    ?statement rdf:type rdf:Statement.
 >    ?statement rdf:subject ?s.
 >    ?statement rdf:predicate ?p.
 >    ?statement rdf:object ?o.
 >    ?statement dc:creator ?by
 > }

That's precisely what I'm talking about :-) Now imagine a query that's 
already complicated to start with, even without any reification...

If reification was directly supported, you'd expect something like this:

prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
prefix sc: <http://purl.org/science/owl/sciencecommons/>
select  ?s ?p ?o ?by
from <http://purl.org/commons/hcls/proto>
where { ?s ?p ?o [ dc:creator ?by ] }

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:09:06 UTC