publicay...@verizon.net wrote:
I need to associate a triple with its reification id, then make triples
on that id (for things like creator and created). The only way I can
figure out to do this in RDFa is to make the triple in the usual way
(with about/rel/resource), but also assert the reification triples on
the subject, predicate, and object. I was planning on putting the
reification triples in the head.
It seems unfortunate to add 3 triples and their elements in the head for
each triple in the body just to represent the mapping from reification
id to a triple's subject, predicate, and object. The only other option I
can come up with is to extend RDFa with a new attribute to give the
reification id and have it expand into the 3 triples, something like
<meta about="s" rel="p" resource="o" reification="id" />
Since there isn't any special handling for reification in RDFa, I was
wondering if it was discussed and rejected, and if so, what were the
problems. Also, is there any inclination to expand RDFa sometime in the
future for convenient handling of reification?
Brian
Hi Brian,
You might want to take a look at http://buzzword.org.uk/2009/rdfa4/spec - it
doesn't use reification but named graphs instead which I'd prefer anyway.
Regards,
Simon
