- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:31:17 +0000
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
On 2011-03-26, at 09:09, Steve Harris wrote: > I get where you're coming from, but I suspect that not being able to dereference is a good thing in some cases. > > If it's a dereferencable URI then you win a load of moral(?) obligations to make them stable and persistent, which is some of the things you're might be trying to get away from when using bNodes. > > I like the UUID prefix, gets round a lot of practical issues. > > <bnode:3dff1ee0-783a-42f4-8d67-4381dd4dd83e:123456> can't be resolved, but you can use it in, for e.g. > > http://sparql.example.com/data?graph=bnode%3A3dff1ee0-783a-42f4-8d67-4381dd4dd83e%3A123456 > > Ignoring for a moment the raft of exciting scope issues that raises :) A less crazy example is maybe: http://sparql.example.com/?query=DESCRIBE%20%3Cbnode%3A3dff1ee0-783a-42f4-8d67-4381dd4dd83e%3A123456%3E It's an exercise for the user to map UUIDs to endpoints, but that feels more practical than a global registry of every skolemised bNode. - Steve -- Steve Harris, CTO, Garlik Limited 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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