- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:03:13 +0100 (BST)
- To: "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- cc: "RDF Interest (E-mail)" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, McBride, Brian wrote:
> 6. There is a mapping called Reification which a maps
> each member s of Statements onto a unique member r
> of Resources. r is known as the reficiation of s.
> Here unique means given s1 and s2 members of
> Statements, Reification(s1) = Reification(s2) iff
> s1 = s2.
I don't read the RDF spec to imply this. Instead something like:
there is a relationship Reifies over {(r,s)} where
r Reifies s (wrt a model m)
iff
m contains the statements
r -[rdf:subject]-> (subject(s))
r -[rdf:predicate]-> ...etc
in other words, "a reification" instead of "the reification" is the
right way to look at this.
jan
PS. the reason I prefer this weaker definition is because I'm slightly
cautious about the mechanics of retrieving s given only the URI of its
reification, r.
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