Re: Properties not predicates (was Re: PRIMER: draft data model section)

Pat Hayes wrote:

>> I support this as a change in specification prose.
>> Please note there is an RDF property named "predicate"; it's used in
>> reification. Changing that is a different matter.
> 
> 
> Yes, I just remembered this myself, and agree that would be a different 
> matter altogether. I think I now follow Brian's earlier message. The 
> idea would be that subject/predicate/object are grammatical categories 
> for the parts of a triple, but the actual thing indicated by the 
> predicate - the thingie in the middle - is called a property, right?


That is my interpretation of current usage.  So in an api, I have:

   stmt.getSubject()
   stmt.getPredicate()
   stmt.getObject()

to deconstruct a statement.

   stmt.getResource

does not make sense.

Brian

Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2001 03:34:55 UTC