RE: How to state simple facts in RDF

 

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> 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
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> 
> * 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