Re: a blank node issue

Richard's exactly right, and there's a very nice lightweight (and
registered!) URI scheme that would work for this purpose, namely tag:
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4151.txt

I think that would serve well here. You just need an install step for
any software generating these things that provides it with a suitable
collision-avoiding prefix (email address or domain name). Then it can
use a combination of time and spin count to generate these URIs. You'd
want to review the security implications, but they're probably not too
bad.

If you're worried about turning them back into bnodes on reading in a
graph, then perhaps a new URI scheme registration is needed, or maybe
a special convention for use of tag: can be agreed on. Interesting
problem.

Best
Jonathan

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2011, at 14:18, William Waites wrote:
>> maybe some convention or
>> standard for skolemising blank nodes so they can be
>> referred to might be a good thing?
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> There is already a convention/standard for skolemising blank nodes: just use a URI instead.
>
> Richard
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>> Cheers,
>> -w
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