- From: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:02:04 +0200
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- Cc: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, public-hydra@w3.org, public-lod@w3.org, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Hi Peter,
> I don't see how this solves the problem.
Recall that “the problem” for Hydra clients is (in my opinion):
1. Having a way to find out the members of a specific collection
2. Not breaking the RDF model while doing so
> what you are saying is thatMarkus knows some entity, and that that entity belongs to the set.
…and I give that set a URL, too.
> It does not say which of the members of the set are friends of Markus, nor that any more than one of them has to be
…on purpose, since it is not needed at all to solve 1 and 2.
</people/markus> foaf:knows [ hydra:memberOf </people/markus/friends> ].
Gives you the URL of the set, which allows you to retrieve it.
Then if you retrieve it, it will list its members and say they are friends of Markus:
</people/markus> foaf:knows </people/Anna>.
</people/markus> foaf:knows </people/Bert>.
</people/markus> foaf:knows </people/Carl>.
This is exactly the reason I propose this approach;
I know many people want more semantics in there;
and that's totally fine and even possible with this approach
(like I said, you can further describe /people/markus/friends if you like.)
But all we need for Hydra clients is a way to get Markus' friends.
This solution offers it. No more semantics needed.
Best,
Ruben
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