Re: Blank Nodes Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

On 11/27/2018 4:31 PM, Dave Raggett wrote:
> 
>> On 27 Nov 2018, at 18:00, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us 
>> <mailto:phayes@ihmc.us>> wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, understanding how RDF relates to OO programming 
>> boggles my imagination.
> 
> This is the basis for the Web of Things :-)
> 
> RDF as the basis for a) semantic descriptions of the kinds of things and 
> their relationships to each other and to the context in which they 
> reside, and b) describing software objects that applications can 
> interact with locally independent of where the actual thing is or the 
> means to communicate with it.

Here's how I look at it.  OO programming lends itself to box-and-line 
diagrams, and they help understanding.  RDF *is* all about 
boxes-and-lines (to oversimplify!). If you are going to have some 
language, some data model, for capturing and talking about your 
programming things, why wouldn't you want one that is a standard instead 
of proprietary?  RDF as a DSL!

Tom P

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