- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:02:07 +0000
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Cc: RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
How do you distinguish between quoted statements and asserted statements? E.g. Ralph says "Ora is creator of http://www.w3.org/Home/Lasilla" #g -- At 09:26 PM 3/6/01 -0600, Aaron Swartz wrote: >At the RDF IG F2F there was some discussion about ways to move pure triples >around from parser to parser. Some of us decided the best way to do it would >be to have a set of reified statements, like so: > ><rdf:RDF ...> ><rdf:Statement> > <rdf:subject rdf:resource="..." /> > <rdf:predicate rdf:resource="..." /> > <rdf:object rdf:resource="..." /> ></rdf:Statement> >... ></rdf:RDF> > >This format can be both parsed as RDF and as plain XML, so it's very simple. > >As a demonstration of this, I have put up an web service that will take a >URI, run it through SiRPAC and stick out a bunch of triples: > >http://purl.org/swag/rdf2triples?url=(url-goes-here) > >I'd love to see others put up similar interfaces to their parsers. (Eric >dares you to. ;-)) The idea is that then we can begin to build cross-parser >apps on top of this. For example, the SiRPAC servlet could offer a choice >between various parsers, and Dave Beckett's parser test suite could run >itself. > >Another application in the back of my mind is using this for signing sets of >triples. The major problem with this however is some way of ordering the >statements. > >Anyway, some food for thought. >-- >Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>| SWAG: Semantic Web Agreement Group > <http://www.aaronsw.com> | <http://purl.org/swag/> >AIM: JediOfPi | ICQ: 33158237| helping build the next web ------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org
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