Blank nodes as predicates Re: Blank Nodes Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

• From: Martin G. Skjæveland <martige@ifi.uio.no>
• Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:54:04 +0100
• To: semantic-web@w3.org
• Message-ID: <d31f0b57-4562-b3ad-9c12-59807c447971@ifi.uio.no>

On 22/11/18 13:02, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>> On 2018-11 -21, at 22:40, David Booth wrote:

>> Blank nodes are special second-class citizens
>> in RDF.  They cannot be used as predicates, 
> 
> Agreed it messes up the symmetry.  Actually in most of my code you can 
> use a blank node as a predicate.  That said, RDF is unusual in having as 
> much symmetry.

I like symmetry. Can we get a ✅ for blank nodes as predicates too?

Martin

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