- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:06:16 -0500
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Nathan wrote: > Pat Hayes wrote: >> It wouldn't take very much to make into full first-order logic: all >> it needs is a scoping mechanism (think graph literals in N3 or >> named graphs, or my 'surfaces' idea from the Blogic talk) and >> negation. Mind you, that scoping mechanism would drive a truck >> through triple-store-based implementations, I suspect. Back to tree >> structures and Sexpressions, no doubt :-) > > Obvious question, regardless of implementations, is there any chance > of getting that scoping mechanism in to RDF through W3C to rec? > > Any rough ideas how long that process may take? (I'm assuming the > RDF Semantics are bug-less and this would just be an addition). Given the amount of Sturm and Drang that something as trivial as allowing literals in subject position has generated, I would think the answer is, likely not in my lifetime. Pat > > My logic here is that if other serializations or even something N3- > like were to go through standardization, then work would probably > have to start on getting said scoping mech in to RDF sooner rather > than later. > > Best, > > Nathan > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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