Re: lightweight reification

Graham Klyne wrote:
> But reification described in M&S involves making a node resource for the
> statement, AND adding four graph arcs originating from that node.  If we
> can find a usable identity for the statement resource, then the four
> additional arcs aren't necessarily needed.

a reified statement has intrinsically these 4 properties (property in the general meaning, not RDF's), and the arcs are the way RDF expresses properties !

This does not mean that implementation must keep those arcs explicit (I agree there are better ways of doing it), but it's true that M&S may be misleading about it.

  Pierre-Antoine

Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 04:44:56 UTC