- From: Bill dehOra <BdehOra@interx.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:24:13 -0000
- To: "'Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN'" <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>, Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>, "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>, RDF-IG <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> That is true. > But unlike Brian McBride, I think the spec is not un > ambiguous about Reified statements (though it is precise > about Statements). > Now, assigning more than one URI to a statement is not only > syntactically possible, it is useful. > Hence it would be great to officialy allow that. If I said "x foo y" and Brian says "x foo y" and Pierre says "x foo y", it may be useful to treat these three identical statements as: -three different things (maybe none of us knew what the other had said) -the same thing being pointed to (maybe we found out) -other options I don't know about :) > I still agree with you. > But the quetion you quote maybe hides a deeper one : "does > RDF describe only resources, or does it also describe entities". > My guess is that when a resources resolves to a unique > entity, it is very tempting to describe the entity rather > than the resource -- and I'm pretty sure some RDF users already did. RDF describes only resources and combinations of resources. I'm happy to lift literals into system dependent resources. -Bill de hÓra
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