- From: Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <reto.bachmann@trialox.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:06:53 +0200
- To: paoladimaio10@googlemail.com
- Cc: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Hi Paola According to rdf semantics any UriRef used as predicate in s statement is a rdf:Property. I'm wondering what the difference between properties and verbs are and about the advantages of the latter (unfortunately I cannot read that page via the link to google-doc). Cheers, reto On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not following close enough the discussion on subjects as literals , and > whtere they contribute > to the awkwardness of RDF > One thing I remember finding it disorienting though, is that there is no > rule that a predicate must be a verb > (when I was looking at triple as if it were a subject- predicate- object > model ) > In standard modelling practices (E/R modeling) the relations tend to be > verbs > > CF PAGE 196 > http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1ftCwG4K-HEC&lpg=PA196&ots=FBX42Ms9Ys&dq=ENTITY%20RELATIONSHIP%20MODEL%20SENTENCE%20VERB%20RULE&pg=PA196#v=onepage&q&f=false > I did bring this up on another list, and the engineers thought it would be > good practice to > restrict predicates to verbs for obvious reasons (obvious to anyone who does > data models) > Not sure how that would play if RDF is shown as EAV (entity attribute > value) rather thant SPO (subject predicate object) > Just thought I d mention this, in case someone wants to fix RDF thats the > first crack I spottend a while back > cheers > PDM
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