- From: Paul Trevithick <ptrevithick@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:42:15 -0500
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
+1 <s> <p> <x, y, z> is more intuitive to most developers coming to RDF from other modeling worlds. On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > 2010/1/14 Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>: > >> 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. > > Don't think I fully understand what you have in mind, are you talking: > > <s> <p> <x, y, z> (which is kinda supported already with turtle syntax) > > or > > <s> <p1,x> <p2,y> <p3,z> (which is also kinda supported already, albeit lengthy) > > or something else? > > n-tuples would certainly have the advantage of mapping more directly > to SQL-style data > > Cheers, > Danny. >
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