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RE: How to state simple facts in RDF

From: McBride, Brian <brian.mcbride@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:06:38 +0100
Message-ID: <D46BE408DE18F841B90DEFA8CAA2CDB2DEA494@sdcexcea01.emea.cpqcorp.net>
To: "Lars Marius Garshol" <larsga@ontopia.net>, <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Lars 
> Marius Garshol
> Sent: 29 June 2005 14:11
> To: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: How to state simple facts in RDF
> 
> 
> 
> * Brian McBride
> |
> | This question came up in RDFCore.  The suggestion at the 
> time was to 
> | use rdf:type, e.g.
> | 
> |   Eg::company rdf:type eg:BankruptCompany .
> 
> That was one of the alternatives being considered, but as I 
> write in my reply to Mike Uschold, that alternative causes 
> difficulties. Were any other alternatives suggested?

The other option at the time was a binary valued relation e.g.

  Eg:company eg:isBankrupt "true"^^xsd:boolean .

Brian
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