- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:20:31 -0600
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > 2010/1/14 Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>: > >>> * containers (Bag, Alt, Seq) - quiet deprecation would probably be >>> the >>> best bet, supported by clear instruction on how to use Lists >> >> Well... partly, I'm still not sold on Lists, they're hugely >> inconvenient to >> deal with in their triple form, and cause significant data-bloat. > > I don't disagree, though the theory seems neater than containers, in > practice they do seem really clunky. Any thoughts on what might be a > better paradigm? Anything perhaps lightly layered on top of the > container style? > A lot, perhaps all, of this hair could be avoided if RDF allowed general tuples as well as triples. All that is needed is some way to put N things into a sequence: so, put N things into a sequence. The 'graph model' would be a hyperlink, drawn as a polygon (eg triangle for N=3) rather than a line. In triples-style syntax, it would just be moving a dot. Pat > Cheers, > Danny. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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