- From: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:25:54 +0100
- To: "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, ML RDF-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3c.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
"McBride, Brian" wrote: > So I see two options. A resource can have multuple URI's in which > case the ability to assign multiple URI's to the same reified > statement is no problem. > > Option 2, resources can have only 1 URI, in which case there can be > multiple resources which model an RDF statement, but they are all > equivalent, as in DAML equivalentTo. I vote for option 2, definitely. Statements (nor trees, nor HTML pages) are not resources : reosurces are "conceptual mappings", which *denote* some (set of) entity. The spec does not say that Statements are resources. It just says that the "reified statement" (a resource) represents the original statement. But as Graham pointed out, something can have more than one representation. Pierre-Antoine PS: I'm just thinking about some intersting interpretation : since a resource can denote more than one entity, isn't it fair to consider that "the reified statement" (the *resource* representing the original statement) denotes *both* the abstract statement and the stating. Just a thought... -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson -- Calvin & Hobbes)
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