Re: Blank nodes must DIE! [ was Re: Blank nodes semantics - existential variables?]

> On 27. Jul 2020, at 20:56, Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr> wrote:
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> Le 27/07/2020 à 18:52, Maxime Lefrançois a écrit :
>> If we imagine datatypes that encode RDF graphs,
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> Ivan Herman drafted a document a while ago that does exactly that:
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> https://www.w3.org/2009/07/NamedGraph.html#definition-of-graph-literals
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> I even think that, in some cases, it could be of some usefulness, but the kinds of use cases are so niche, and the idea of encoding RDF graphs inside literals in other RDF graphs is so disturbing to the homo semanticus that there are chances it will never get traction.

For graphs that contain only one triple it’s really not very different from what RDF* does, isn’t it? 

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> —AZ
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