Re: RDF/XML and named graphs

Am I fundamentally misguided in believing that RDF/XML provides no
benefits over other text formats like N3 and TriG, other than being,
nominally, XML? XML tool support seems mostly invalidated by the fact
that we're using a format designed to encode hierarchical data to
encode non-hierarchical data. I can't figure out why I might want to
use RDF/XML.

Chris Richard


On Dec 18, 2007 6:05 AM, Steffen Staab <staab@uni-koblenz.de> wrote:
>
> Find here some uses (reports and software) described for explicit graph
> names:
>
> 1. Networked graphs providing (possibly recursive) views on other
> resources:
>
> https://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IFI/AGStaab/Research/NetworkedGraphs
>
> 2. Querying for meta knowledge (provenance, certainty, source document,
> etc.),
>    which is stated about a graph as a whole (yes, "IRI1 a Graph" would
> be useful here):
>
> https://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IFI/AGStaab/Research/MetaKnowledge
>
> Cheers,
> Steffen
>
> Peter Ansell schrieb:
>
> > Just skimming through that submission it is unclear why one would want
> > to publish a document which included sources from multiple different
> > graphs interweaved. Is this document an authoritative reference for
> > the triples from each of the graphs? Could you definitely retrieve the
> > graph source from its original definition and match the definitions?
> > Duplicating information seems to lend itself to hazards with importing
> > two graphs into the same store...
> >
> > It would however be very helpful if it was your desire to augment the
> > original graph without having the authority to do so.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 18/12/2007, Fabien Gandon <Fabien.Gandon@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> W3C just published a member submission that may be relevant to this
> >> discussion:
> >>
> >>     RDF/XML Source Declaration
> >>     Submitted by INRIA on 06 September 2007
> >>     Published on 17 December 2007
> >>     http://www.w3.org/Submission/rdfsource/
> >>
> >>     Submission
> >>     http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/09/
> >>
> >>     W3C Staff Comment
> >>      http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/09/Comment
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Fabien - http://ns.inria.fr/fabien.gandon/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 18 December 2007 14:33:23 UTC