Re: comment: Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web

> Trivial typo: In the section "Representation Pattern" the references 
> for reification and rdf:value are given as [3] and [4] respectively 
> but are actually listed as [4] and [5] in the references section.

thank you. will fix.

> Reification: You mention reification, which suggests that it is an 
> alternative to the two patterns presented in the note.  Indeed, 
> reification is the method I thought I would use to represent these 
> types of complex relations (in particular, those relations depicted in 
> examples 1 & 2).  What would be incredibly useful (at least, for us 
> amateurs) is a comparison between the patterns you present and RDF 
> reification.  I noticed an email 
> [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2004Jul/0009.html] 
> that suggests removing the reference to reification. I would agree 
> that it can't really stand alone as a sentence but, perhaps rather 
> than removing the offending line, it could be expanded?

We'll try to put a more detailed discussion of this in the next 
version. If someone actually has some ideas on what to say there, any 
help would be greatly appreciated.

Natasha

Received on Monday, 2 August 2004 20:23:30 UTC