Re: Provenance as a first-class citizen

<<On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:56:09 -0500, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> said:

> Publishing statements as triples makes sense.  Whatever you want your
> web page to say, just put those statements on the page.  You shouldn't
> have to put on the page a statement that those statements are on the
> page and are true.  Say "The sky is blue", not "I am now telling you
> that the sky is blue."

Which is why I said (in text snipped by the previous correspondent):

: so for the most common cases it only needs to be modeled, not
: explicitly represented.

This point is that the *model* is incomplete, because not all
statements have names,[1] not that the names (which ought to exist)
should be explicitly represented everywhere.  As a result, I cannot
make statements about most of the RDF statements published today by
other people (even though I can make statements about the documents
that contain them).

-GAWollman

[1] Do any statements have names?  It's not clear to me from the
description of reification in the spec, but that may just be that the
theory is beyond my grasp.

Received on Friday, 17 March 2006 21:28:38 UTC