- From: David Wood <dwood@softwarememetics.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:13:08 -0500
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: "Christoffel Dhaen" <christoffel@landcglobal.com>, <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
On 12 Dec2005, at 12:58, Pat Hayes wrote: > RDF uses a graph *syntax*, but that is merely a syntactic > convention. Nothing follows from this about transitivity or > otherwise of the relations described by an RDF graph. I think this may be the key to the different ways of thinking. As far as I am concerned, RDF *is* a (particular type of) graph. The syntactic conventions are its several serialization formats. And, as a graph, RDF has a native concept of relations between things which are connected to other things via yet more things (transitivity). Regards, Dave
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