RE: Reification quoting in RDF/N3 was: A note comparing Conceptua l Graphs and RDF/Semantic Web

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> Suppose we wanted to do this for real. 'Fred' is not a URI.

*sigh* This is the age-old problem where we want to make assertions abotut
things that don't have URIs in RDF. My take on this is that you simply
*give* them a URI:-

@prefix : <#>
:bill :loves :jane
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Sure. Now are we giving them a URI before we serialize this stuff up and
send it on its way, or are we giving incoming string literals URIs? I
suggest that the latter case you'll need a human to help the machine out and
in the former you'll be lucky :)

-Bill

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