Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

Jeremy, the point is to start the process, but put it on a low burner,
so that in 4-5 years time, you will be able to sell a whole new RDF+ suite to your customers with this new benefit.  ;-)

On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:38, Jeremy Carroll wrote:

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> I am still not hearing any argument to justify the costs of literals as subjects
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> I have loads and loads of code, both open source and commercial that assumes throughout that a node in a subject position is not a literal, and a node in a predicate position is a URI node.

but is that really correct? Because bnodes can be names for literals, and so you really do have
literals in subject positions.... No?


> Of course, the "correct" thing to do is to allow all three node types in all three positions. (Well four if we take the graph name as well!)
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> But if we make a change,  all of my code base will need to be checked for this issue.
> This costs my company maybe $100K (very roughly)
> No one has even showed me $1K of advantage for this change.

I agree, it would be good to get a full list of the benefits.

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> It is a no brainer not to do the fix even if it is technically correct
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> Jeremy
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