Re: Reification - whats best practice?

Thomas B. Passin wrote:

>
> Eric Jain wrote:
>
>> Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>>
>>> Edge rdf:type Property-that-can-have-instances
>>>
> It seems to me that the kind of "recursion" you are talking about here 
> is not a problem with modeling properties as individuals at all, but 
> rather of an infinite regress of statements -


What about the rdf:type property?

rdf_type_1 >>rdf:type<< Edge .
e1 rdf_type_1 Edge .
...

As to verbosity, for statements about statements it perhaps doesn't get 
much less verbose than this, but to say that "X said <all this>" where 
<all this> is a graph the named graphs approach would seem to have an 
edge (no pun intended).

Hamish

Received on Wednesday, 1 September 2004 08:07:57 UTC