Re: canonical RDF graph representations

On 1 March 2011 10:50, Ivan Shmakov <ivan@main.uusia.org> wrote:
>        The “The case for generating URIs by hashing RDF content” paper
>        [1], dating back to 2002, mentions that “there is no current
>        canonical serialization standard for RDF”.  (Then, they suggest
>        their own canonical representation.)
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>        I wonder, has such a standard been since proposed?
>
> [1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-216.pdf

Yes, it's important to have a standard way canonicalize RDF, or, at
least, RDF/XML imho.  It's required for xmlsig, I think.

I think there was an issue with bnodes ... maybe it's something we can solve.

Maybe we can get this quickly to rec status?

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Received on Tuesday, 1 March 2011 13:13:42 UTC