Re: RDF Syntaxes 2.0

On 25 Jan 2010, at 05:38, Dave Beckett wrote:
...
> So I'm happy with how Turtle turned out and that should be the focus  
> of RDF
> syntax formats *for users*.  It does need an update and I'll  
> probably work
> on that whether or not a new syntax is part of some future working  
> group - I
> have a pile of fixes to go in.  Adding named graphs (TRIG) might be  
> the next
> step for this if it was a standard.

Agreed, I also think Turtle is close to the sweet spot of compactness/ 
complexity and human/machine readability.

I'm also a fan of TriG (modulo some minor syntax oddities), but I  
don't want to see them merged. Sometimes it's helpful to know that  
what you're going to get won't have any additional named graphs in it.

I don't want a situation where a text/turtle graph at http://foo.com/data.ttl 
  might imply some facts about a graph with the URI http://bar.com/data.ttl 
, it's hard to know what you should do about that.

If the file is TriG (or similar), then you know it can contain named  
graphs, and handle it differently - w.r.t. permissions and so on.

- Steve

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