- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:37:00 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Just checking we are clear what is being renamed. Well, I thought I was clear, but now I am completely confused. > M&S uses the term predicate for a component of a statement. That means a triple, right? Or a [node/edge/node] combination in an RDF graph. Or does 'statement' mean something else? Right now, as I understand it, there are triples in Ntriples, pieces of graph in the graph syntax, and more complicated pieces of syntax in RDF/XML. Which of these is called a statement? > Thus a statement has three components: > > a subject > a predicate > an object > >The subject must (debatably) be a resource I thought the subject (being a piece of syntax) was a [node labelled with a] uriref. >The predicate must be a property Which of these terms refers to a syntax class and which to something else? (And I thought the syntactic thingie in the middle of a triple was a uriref, in any case.) >The object may be a resource or a literal. uriref or literal, I presume. Or did you mean 'resource or literal value'? >The terms predicate and property in M&S mean different things. But you just said that the predicate WAS a property. If they are the same, how can they be different? >Are we losing the distinction, or is this distinction just no longer >applicable. What distinction??? Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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