- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:14:42 +0100
- To: "Hammond, Tony" <t.hammond@nature.com>
- Cc: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>, semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>
2010/1/14 Hammond, Tony <t.hammond@nature.com>: > >> But please don't kill blank nodes ! Sorry Chris on thread etiquette, but +1 to that. There's a huge argument in favour of giving everything a (HTTP) URI, and as far as I can tell from the approach taken by Talis in the Platform stores, there's very little downside to this, the actual cost of minting & maintaining URIs is the least of our worries. Likewise timbl's Give Yourself a URI over everyone being blank nodes. But although getting rid of blank nodes may not be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, it's at least a limb or two. I'd point to the correspondence with variables in SPARQL, you can stick a ?x in the middle of a complex structure, even if you don't care about the value(s) of ?x itself. The related value(s) one can get through implication are worthwhile, even if the thing itself isn't available over HTTP. IMHO, €0.02. Love the Rumsfeld quote. Cheers, Danny.
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