Re: plural vs singular properties (a proposal) from Garret Wilson on 2008-01-05 (semantic-web@w3.org from January 2008)

From: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:14:10 -0800
To: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
CC: SWIG <semantic-web@w3.org>
Message-ID: <477FF322.4080205@globalmentor.com>

Frank Manola wrote:
> In a graph of triples, there are as many relations as far as 
> *semantics* are concerned as there are distinct predicates included in 
> those triples (not one per resource, as you had it earlier).

When I was describing relations based upon Date's interpretation, I 
spoke incorrectly; I should have said "one relation per resource type" 
(e.g. <foaf.Person>).

(Multiple types per resource is a whole different can of worms that I 
don't even want to bring up until I read a little more...)

Garret

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