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Re: a bnode URI scheme?!

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:25:36 +0000
Message-ID: <40557690.4040903@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
To: Andrew Newman <andrew@tucanatech.com>
Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org



Andrew Newman wrote:

> Isn't that nearly always going to be wrong?  I mean just because an 
> bnode has the same properties (say first name and last name or even just 
> first name) doesn't mean they are the same thing.

Second sentence is true but irrelevant to the first.
A reduction from G to G' is sound and complete iff G entails G' and G' 
entails G by the RDF Semantics. This definition, which in my view is a 
useful take on the RDF Recs, may be worth implementing in software (not 
that I have done so). Any semantic processing of G that does not work on G' 
is potentially non-interoperable and requires thought. In particular 
counting the number of bnodes linked by an eg:foo edge to eg:bar should not 
make any material difference (i.e. semantically relevant) to the actions of 
an RDF processor.

Jeremy
Received on Monday, 15 March 2004 04:26:00 UTC

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