Re: Why skolemization?

On 2011-03-27, at 21:02, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 18:15 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, yeah, I figured the system doing the generation could freely
>> do
>>> either:
>>> http://example.org/=rdfgensym=/668a93dc-e478-4c47-af45-f062b449cd21
>>> 
>>> or   
>>> tag:example.org,2011:=rdfgensym=/668a93dc-e478-4c47-af45-f062b449cd21
>>> 
>>> ... based on whether it wants to support deference or not.
> 
> I accidentally left out the other http example, to avoid a 303 when the
> thing is not an information resource:
> 
> http://example.org/=rdfgensym=#668a93dc-e478-4c47-af45-f062b449cd21
> 
> That makes it harder to give good error information, though.
> 
>> That would be fine, I thought you were advocating always using HTTP
>> URIs.
>> 
>> Magic URI substrings still don't quite sit well with me though.
> 
> I understand.  To me, they are a bit like 303s; not a solution I'm
> particularly proud of proposing, but ... it seems like it will work, and
> I can't think of anything better.

Right, that's kind of where I am too.

I guess the only questions in my mind are; do you need to identify skolem constant URIs, and is tag:{something} better than bnode:{something}.

- Steve

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