Re: Alternatives to containers/collections (was Re: Requirements for a possible "RDF 2.0")

On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:

> 2010/1/15 Jiří Procházka <ojirio@gmail.com>:
>
>> PS: Actually there is one thing which would aid bootstrapped nature  
>> of RDF:
>>
>> ex:contains rdf:type rdf:Property ;
>>  rdfs:comment "property for stating that a reified triple is part of
>> graph" ;
>>  rdfs:range rdf:Statement .
>
> That's rather neat.
>
> Pat, I must admit I'm finding myself more aligned with Jiří's  
> attitude
> here, I don't really see a problem with RDF being a LISP-like
> language, though I take the point of it being declarative rather than
> procedural.

Well, OK, I guess there is a real split between the idea of RDF being  
simply a datastructuring device along the lines of LISP or XML, and  
its being a language with a semantics (and so supporting inference).  
Ive always assumed that it was the latter. But if y'all think that the  
semantic web doesn't need semantics after all, go ahead. I do have  
other things to do.

Pat

> We do have things like XSLT to guide us (which isn't too
> dissimilar to SPARQL CONSTRUCTs).
>
> While there does seem to be utility to OWL/OWL2 and full-blown DLs in
> general, I would posit that the thing that is more immediate is tying
> this stuff to the Web, instead of using programming cycles to discover
> inferences, doing a HTTP GET and getting more information that way.
>
> Clearly it's possible to expose RDBMSs as triples, but ordered Lists &
> things are still a pain - might it not be possible to sprinkle a
> little more sugar over the syntax to make things like n-ary
> relations/n-tuples more straightforward, without any major hacking on
> the model? (caveat - IANAL either).
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
>
> -- 
> http://danny.ayers.name
>
>

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