- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:31:44 +0100
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote: > 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. I periodically wonder what an RDF without the binary restriction would look like. Would each property/relation have a fixed arity, eg. dc:source might 'be a 4', 'foaf:knows' a 7? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. So presumably they'd vary freely. In which case, we have a lot of figuring out to do when wondering whether livesWith(alice, bob, 2007, 'y') implies livesWith(alice,bob) or livesWith(alice, bob, 'y', 'foo.html'). The binary straightjacket makes some of these questions impossible, albeit maddeningly... Dan
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