On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:17:37 -0500, Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ben Lund wrote: > > However, with RDF, you can just concatenate the triples. > Would that really be the right thing to do?
Heh, thought that point might bite back...depends... In the example you gave, > the two different sets of triples were generated by different authors and > thus had differing contexts, trust metrics, authorship, etc. associated with > them. My gut feeling tells me that "source" information would need to be > preserved in most practical cases. While I see that in theory, simply > concatenating the triples makes sense -- I'm not sure if it would make sense > in the real world. Authorship/Attribution is important. True, but it's not a problem. Provenance can be done where needed using reification (you add a pile more triples) or by stepping outside the current RDF logic and using things like named graphs. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com
