Re: ISSUE: #rdfms-identity-anon-resources

>At 07:04 PM 6/26/01 +0100, Brian McBride wrote:
>>Yesterday we also activated
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-identity-anon-resources
>>
>>I think this is more of a semantic question, but it does affect the syntax
>>of n-triple.  I'd also like a volunteer to own this one.
>
>I'll volunteer to own this.

You beat me to it.

>
>Having reviewed the issue, the first question I have to ask is this:
>
>In the current RDF specification (that we are chartered to clarify), 
>is this a purely syntactic issue, or does the "model" also allow for 
>anonymous resources?

If "model" means the set-of-triples abstract graph syntax, the answer 
is surely yes, in the m&s. If it means 'domain of semantic 
interpretation', the concept of 'anonymous' isnt really defined, but 
there would be no harm in letting nameless things be in the domain; 
that would be the usual logical convention. (If you insist not, so 
that everything has a name, then there is an implicit closed-world 
assumption on any vocabulary, which would make RDF reasoning sharply 
nonmonotonic, which is probably a mistake.)

Pat

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Received on Thursday, 28 June 2001 11:56:46 UTC