Re: Provenance as a first-class citizen

On Mar 17, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> I'm certain that this has been said before by people better-informed
> than I, but the more I look at RDF the more certain I am that basing
> it on triples rather than 4-tuples was a serious mistake.

I agree 1000%. Using triples means that by default statements are  
trusted and not reified. It suggests a top-down approach, rather than  
a bottom-up one. This is one reason that tags/keywords are more  
appealing to people than the SW.

- ben syverson
likn

Received on Friday, 17 March 2006 20:21:44 UTC