Re: Anonymous and unknown URIs

Jonas Liljegren wrote:
> 
> Dan Brickley wrote:
> >  Some RDF might say: "the eyecolour of the hairdresser of my boss's niece
> > is brown". This is a (perhaps!) useful piece of information that we might
> > exchange using XML and RDF. Or "the price of my boss's car". In both
> > cases, the RDF statements would be anchored to resources using URIs at
> > some point, eg. a person: URI for the speaker.
> >
> > [person:uk:nx9300001]--boss--> [ ] ---niece--> [ ] ---hairdresser--> [ ] --eyecol-> "brown"
> > [person:uk:nx9300001]--boss--> [ ] --price--> "30,000 ukp"
> 
> Good example!
> 
> So we should look at them as unknown URIs, and talk about them as thus.
> 
> Could this be integrated with a general way to present RDF queries?

sure, that is a great way of writing a query.
And by the way, I agree with Sergey, pointing out that there is not fundamental difference beetween anonymous resources and ID'ed resources
(that is, resources with rdf:ID instead of rdf:about).
If we read this as a query, ID'ed resources could be the resources to be returned, while really anonymous resources are just here to add constraints.

But what if this is to be read as a statement ??
What if I read both statements

[person:uk:nx9300001]--boss--> [person:uk:nx9300002]--car--> [vehicle:uk:ABC1234]
[person:uk:nx9300001]--boss--> []--car--> []--price--> "30,000 ukp"

if I know that I (nx9300001) have only one boss, and that person:uk:nx9300002 has only one car,
then I can infer [vehicle:uk:ABC1234]--price--> "30,000 ukp",
but that's a lot of IFs !

And neither property-value-unicity nor node-unification are adressed by RDF recommandation.

That's a really interesting point, but still a big issue, IMHO

  Pierre-Antoine