Re: Well Behaved RDF - Taming Blank Nodes, etc.

Hi Lee,
Great set of questions (my reformatting to make response easier).
I too would love to see peoples' answers.
I don't think I have seen a response - any takers?

On 13 Dec 2012, at 14:41, Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net> wrote:

> On 12/13/2012 2:00 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
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>> And that is exactly what blank nodes are for, so I would like to use them to do that.
> 
> What is the value of using a blank node here rather than minting an arbitrary URI?
> Is there inherent value in using something because that's what it was designed for?

> Is there a property of blank nodes that you need that URIs don't have here?

> Is it the cost of minting an arbitrary URI?

> Is it the potential cost of having two URIs for the thing sometime down the road?

> Something else?

> 
>> 
>> Another example: a picture of some celebrity standing next to a horse. I have a URI for the celebrity, but I don't have and don't need one for the horse: and if I were to invent one for each horse, then I could no longer query for retrieval of a picture of that person with "a horse", but would have to remember the URi for each of the bloody horses. But nobody gives a damn about the particular horse.
> 
> Could you explain this more? Because I'm picturing just doing:
> 
> SELECT ?photo {
>   ?photo a :Photograph ;
>        :depicts :ThePerson ;
>        :depicts [ a :Horse ] ;
>   .
> }
> 
> ...which works fine whether the horse is represented with a blank node or a URI.
> 
> Lee
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