- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:53:24 -0400
- To: danbri@w3.org
- Cc: phayes@ai.uwf.edu, seth@robustai.net, www-rdf-rules@w3.org
And just how are RDF applications supposed to determine when to do this merging? peter From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> Subject: Re: Expressiveness of RDF as Rule Conclusion Language (was Re: W hat is an RDF Query? ) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:20:15 -0400 (EDT) > yOn Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Pat Hayes wrote: > > > The graph-merging rules described in section 3 of the RDF MT document > > should make this clear: if you merge two RDF graphs then you *must* > > merge nodes with the same URI, but you *must not* merge blank nodes. > > ...though in practice RDF applications are free to additionally > do some extra merging, if they have for some other reason to infer that > the nodes refer to some common entity. Right? (ie. the > graph-merging rule is just one thing that realworld RDF apps will do when > they're merging data from multiple sources) > > Dan > >
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