can RDF-star further be nested?

as in:

<< << << :s :p :o >> :p1 :o1 >> :q :y >> :r :z .


On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:08 PM Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are two variants around: RDF* and RDF-star.
>
> RDF* is the original work by Olaf and <<:s :p :o>> means
> the triple :s :p :o is asserted as well.
> That has permissions implications.
>
> RDF-star is the name the active community (including Olaf) is giving to
> its work (1) to make it search able and (2) it's different.
> <<:s :p :o>> does not imply anything about the existence of :s :p :o .
>
> https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/951
> is RDF-star (only).
>
> There are various reasons why RDF-star is the way it is, including being
> able to separate the target data from the triples about the data (e.g.
> wikidata).
>
> In RDF-star, you can "say anything about anything" - including triples
> that are not asserted in the graph or otherwise don't exist.
>
> For permissions, one approach is that only asserted triples matter. No
> need to filter inside a <<>>. So you can make assertions about things
> you don't have access to : they don't exist as asserted from your POV.
> No difference.
>
> But if it is what you want, it is a recursive analysis of the statement.
>   The matcher in PR#951 is recursive.
>
> Don't forget:
>
> << << :s :p :o >> :q :y >> :r :z .
>
>  > Without a way to distinguish the
>  > RDF-*Node from a regular resource
>
> Model:
> RDFNode.isStmtResource()
>
> Graph:
> Node.isTripleTerm()
>
>      Andy
>
> On 09/03/2021 16:24, Claude Warren wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > RDF-* seems like it may cause problems for permissions.
> >
> >  From what I have seen we take a statement and convert that to a node
> where
> > the label is the statement (or the triple?).  But there does not seem to
> be
> > a way to differentiate the RDF-* edge nodes from other Nodes.
> >
> > My question arises around the following:
> >
> > Let's say there are 2 statements in the model
> > (s,p,o) and (x,y, (s,p,o)) where the (x,y,(s,p,o)) is an RDF-* statement
> > about (s,p,o).
> >
> > If a user does not have access to see (s,p,o) they probably should not be
> > able to see (x,y,(s,p,o)) either.  Without a way to distinguish the
> > RDF-*Node from a regular resource I can't do the filtering.
>  >
> > The best I can
> > hope for is that the SecuritEngine implementation can, but I expect that
> > will have problems too.
> >
> > Does anyone with RDF-* background see a way around this?
> >
> > Claude
> >
>
>      Andy
>


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