- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:52:55 +0530
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: nathan@webr3.org, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
(catching up with the thread)
On 27 Mar 2011, at 04:50, Steve Harris wrote:
> RDF needs a way to mint onetime unique identifiers (a la AUTO_INCREMENT columns in RDBMS')
Why does *RDF* need this? You seem to talk about a SPARQL store use case, so shouldn't it be in SPARQL?
So in SPARQL Update, in addition to the current ways of adding data:
INSERT DATA { (RDF goes here) }
there could be an additional option:
INSERT DATA AUTO_URI { (RDF goes here) }
And this makes the store mint unique URIs (be it tag: or bnode: or http: in a configurable space). I suppose a store could have a preference that makes AUTO_URI the default.
Best,
Richard
Received on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 12:23:26 UTC