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

Gentlemen,


"Aiden Hogen"@en-US-David-Booth
    owl:sameAs  "Aiden"@en-HU-Ivan-Herman
      owl:sameAs  "Aidan Hogan"@en-IE .

There you have it: literals in subject position, weird reasoning on 
language-tagged strings, owl:sameAs, and quints.


--The typographical error policeman.



On 26/11/2018 10:18, Ivan Herman wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 26 Nov 2018, at 07:26, David Booth <david@dbooth.org 
>> <mailto:david@dbooth.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/24/18 6:50 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>> > And no, I don't want a Blank Node for [a location that has
>> > labels] - the system that generates this should create a URI
>> > if it doesn't already have one ;-)
>>
>> I like this line of thought.  I would much rather have auto-generated 
>> URIs, that are predictable and distinguishable as auto-generated, than 
>> blank nodes.  And even better, those auto-generated URIs could be 
>> generated using a standard algorithm, so that all tools would generate 
>> them the same way.
>>
>> As Aiden Hogen et all point out in "Everything You Always Wanted to 
>> Know About Blank Nodes": "the vast majority of blank nodes form tree 
>> structures", i.e., they do not contain blank node cycles.
>> http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps/article/download/365/387
>>
>> If blank node cycles were prohibited in RDF, then predictable URIs 
>> could be automatically generated for those blank nodes, bottom-up 
>> recursively based on the tree structure.  And prohibiting blank node 
>> cycles would not be a huge loss, because even the few cases that do 
>> use blank node cycles could be brought into conformance by replacing a 
>> few of the blank nodes with URIs, to break the cycles.
> 
> It also means that the problem of canonicalization/signature/etc would 
> become way easier. The algorithms that I referred to in[1] are getting 
> complicated due to those b-node cycles (I hope that Aiden, if he reads 
> this, agrees with me). They would be way simpler if this restrictions 
> was in place.
> 
> I.
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2018Nov/0070.html
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> David Booth
>>
> 
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