The mentography of reification

It seems that the RDF WG is grappling with various syntactic understandings
of RDF reification.  But this phrase I have learned from wise men keeps
rolling around my head:  "It's all about the graph, stupid.".     So I
thought I would take a stab (not my first) at representing RDF reification
within the graphical notation of mentography.    I would like to submit the
following mentograph for your comments:

http://robustai.net/mentography/reificationContext.gif

Notice that in mentography we use circles containing labeled directed arcs
exactly like Venn diagrams represent members of a set.

What is interesting is that converting from representing context as the quad
(stid, subject, predicate, object) to using the quad
(context,subject,predicate, object) as is done in N3 does not in fact change
the shorthand notation in the graph:)    See a previous attempt using the
former quad:

http://robustai.net/mentography/MentographySemenglish.gif

Seth Russell

Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2001 14:28:49 UTC