- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:39:07 -0400
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>, "RDF Logic" <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Danny Ayers wrote: > > So essentially I'm suggesting two aspects to the context/grouping issue, > firstly that in the wild (on the web or otherwise available through public > interfaces) the triples exist implicitly as quads, i.e. > > [email:765] [urn:Sassi] [a:hasSpecies] [a:cat] > > and that whether or not triples get asserted remains entirely a local issue, > decided by the implementation. > > Putting this more strongly, we only really have two contexts - 'in the wild' > and 'in application X'. > Whether triples get asserted is not entirely a local issue, nor should it be. Consider above, that your triples are "colored" by the base URI of their containing document, in this case your e-mail. Now consider a "current document" which is identified (as always) by a URI. In base RDF, a triple is _asserted_ when its color (i.e. base URI) is equal to the "current document" URI. Now how one determines the "current document" is outside the scope of RDF, and needs to be more formally addressed for a semantic web to get working. Jonathan
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