- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:00:22 -0400
- To: melnik@db.stanford.edu
- Cc: bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, simeon@research.bell-labs.com
From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: a new way of thinking about RDF and RDF Schema Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:18:49 -0700 [...] > This is an interesting way to go. Is there a way to introduce ordering > in some generic fashion say by using reification? As you noticed, there > are many ways to state ordering, e.g. order of edges by > subject-predicate, or just by subject, or by object etc. All these ways > seem valid and useful... For example, I may want to state that objects > of property dc:creator (authors) are ordered, and conversely, the > subjects are ordered too (ordered list of books authored by an > individual). > > Sergey I don't know how you would use (RDF) reification for this. (But then I don't know how to use RDF reification for anything.) To provide information whether to order or not I would use a new logical (i.e., not non-logical) attribute, perhaps rdf:unordered. peter
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