Re: RDF and the Test of Independent Invention

On 27 April 2016 at 23:07, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
wrote:

> How is JSON an EAV model? Where's the Entity in it?
>

I suppose typically it would be a bnode?


>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The test of independent invention [1] asks "If someone else had already
> > invented your system, would theirs work with yours?"
> >
> > Now imagine if someone had invented RDF (lets call it RDF-L) but with one
> > slight difference.  You are allowed to have literals in the predicate
> > position.
> >
> > Is there a way that RDF could be made to work with RDF-L.
> >
> > This is more than a theoretical question, it has practical implications.
> > The "triple" model which ties key value pairs to a subject, could be
> thought
> > of as a type of Entity Attribute Value (EAV) [2] model.  There are many
> > examples of EAV models that allow literals in the "second" position.
> JSON
> > springs to mind.
> >
> > Does RDF pass the TOII?  If not, can we work out a way to make it do so.
> > After some thought my current favourite idea is to make the following two
> > equivalent:
> >
> >     "predicate" <--> urn:literal:predicate
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > [1] https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html
> > [2]
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_model
>