- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:57:36 +0100
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
2010/1/14 Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>: > 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... beh, two binaries make...er, another binary pair living together in harmony... not sure it's a good idea spec-wise, but it would be fun to see RDF go total n-ary can RIF help with danbri's scenario above? (and please introduce me to Alice, she's always more interesting than Bob)
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