Support for Linked Data for E-Commerce in DotNetNuke Shop Software / GoodRelations

2010-07-01 Thread Martin Hepp (UniBW)
Dear all: The latest release of the NB_Store module [1] for e-commerce sites based on DotNetNuke CMS [2] seems to support GoodRelations in RDFa. See here for details: http://nbstore.codeplex.com/releases/view/45017 The underlying DotNetNuke CMS is said to power over 600,000 production

Re: The Ordered List Ontology

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Harry Halpin wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Wed,

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
How about internationalization? If the subject is a literal, how would translations be associated? On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:14 , Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Ross Singer wrote: I suppose my questions here would be: 1) What's the use case of a literal as subject statement

Re: The Ordered List Ontology

2010-07-01 Thread Sandro Hawke
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 01:53 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Harry Halpin wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote:

Re: Support for Linked Data for E-Commerce in DotNetNuke Shop Software / GoodRelations

2010-07-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) martin.h...@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote: Dear all: The latest release of the NB_Store module [1] for e-commerce sites based on DotNetNuke CMS [2] seems to support GoodRelations in RDFa. See here for details:

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Sandro Hawke
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 22:14 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Ross Singer wrote: I suppose my questions here would be: 1) What's the use case of a literal as subject statement (besides being an academic exercise)? A few off the top of my head. 1. Titles of

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Henry Story
On 30 Jun 2010, at 21:09, Pat Hayes wrote: For example I've heard people saying that it encourages bad 'linked data' practise by using examples like { 'London' a x:Place } - whereas I'd immediately counter with { x:London a 'Place' }. Surely all of the subjects as literals arguments

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Bob Ferris
Hello everybody, I think the main issues are already discussed. Hence, here are some summarized notes of my thoughts: 1. We shouldn't propagate that a user (always a machine or human beeing) has to go this way and not the other one. Leaving this decision by the user, leads to more user

An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Dan Brickley
(rejigged subject line) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: Pat, I wish you had been there.  ;) I have very mixed views on this, I have to say. Part of me wanted badly to be present. But after reading the results of the straw poll, part of me wants to completely

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Henry Story
+1 to the points below. I think one should point out that rdf semantics allows them, and that in an open world they just can't be excluded. In N3 literals as subjects are often used. And the cwm repository is a good place to look for examples @prefix log: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/log#.

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Steve Harris
On 2010-07-01, at 03:20, Hugh Glaser wrote: In fact, a question I would like to ask, but suspect that noone who can answer it is still reading this thread ( :-) ): For those who implement RDF stores, do you have to do something special to reject RDF that has literals as subject? In my

Re: destabilizing core technologies: was Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Dan Brickley
Hi Patrick, On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Patrick Durusau patr...@durusau.net wrote: Dan, Just a quick response to only one of the interesting points you raise: It's clear that many workshop participants were aware of the risk of destabilizing the core technologies just as we are gaining

Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Karl Dubost
Dan, I would like to add a very simple one in the list of annoyances: Le 1 juil. 2010 à 04:46, Dan Brickley a écrit : Some reasons why RDF is annoying and hard (a mildly ordered list): [… cut list of annoyances …] * community building by hacking: The RDF community is pretty much a community

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Yves Raimond wrote: Hello Kingsley! [snip] IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have Identifiers in the form of Name References (which may or many resolve to Structured Representations of Referents carried or borne by Descriptor

Re: destabilizing core technologies: was Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Norman Gray
Dan and all, hello. On 2010 Jul 1, at 11:30, Dan Brickley wrote: Yes, you are right. It is fair and interesting to bring up this analogy and associated history. SGML even got a namecheck in the original announcement of the Web, [...] So, I think I'm holding an awkward position here: *

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Nathan wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:54:20 +0100 Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Henry Story
On 1 Jul 2010, at 16:35, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Hello Kingsley! [snip] IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have Identifiers in the form of Name References (which may or many resolve to Structured

Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Karl Dubost
John, Le 1 juil. 2010 à 10:46, John Erickson a écrit : Karl asks, ...How does one start hacking? Although this might be politically incorrect advice, Toby Segarin's O'Reilly book Programming the Semantic Web (2009) (use The Google...) is a very accessible introduction.

Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Jeremy Carroll
I am still not hearing any argument to justify the costs of literals as subjects I have loads and loads of code, both open source and commercial that assumes throughout that a node in a subject position is not a literal, and a node in a predicate position is a URI node. Of course, the

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Michael Hausenblas
I am still not hearing any argument to justify the costs of literals as subjects. +1 Cheers, Michael -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Henry Story
Jeremy, the point is to start the process, but put it on a low burner, so that in 4-5 years time, you will be able to sell a whole new RDF+ suite to your customers with this new benefit. ;-) On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:38, Jeremy Carroll wrote: I am still not hearing any argument to justify the

Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Rob Styles
On 1 Jul 2010, at 14:05, Ed Summers wrote: Wonderful post Dan. I think the work you and others have been doing w/ Facebook on the OpenGraphProtocol is a great example of how we ought to be thinking about the future of RDF ... building vocabularies to describe web resources, describing

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Stephane Fellah
Hi, I just want to throw my 2 cents in this discussion. I posted a comment in October 2004 related to Smart Literalproposal in Jena Discussion Group. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jena-dev/message/11581 Best regards Stephane Fellah smartRealm LLC

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread John Erickson
RE getting a full list of the benefits, surely if it's being discussed here, Literals as Subjects must be *somebody's* Real(tm) Problem and the benefits are inherent in its solution? And if it isn't, um, why is it being discussed here? ;) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Henry Story

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
Dan, Jeremy, Pat, Henry, Michael, Kinglsey, Ivan, ack.. everyone, Part of me feels like I should apologise for bringing this to the mailing list (even though it was inevitable) - this is all getting out of scope and the last thing we need is one of the most critical communities in what's a

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have Identifiers in the form of Name References (which may or many resolve to Structured Representations of Referents carried or borne by Descriptor Docs/Resources). An Identifier != Literal. If

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Dan Brickley
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jeremy Carroll jer...@topquadrant.com wrote: I am still not hearing any argument to justify the costs of literals as subjects I have loads and loads of code, both open source and commercial that assumes throughout that a node in a subject position is not a

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Henry Story wrote: On 1 Jul 2010, at 16:35, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Hello Kingsley! [snip] IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have Identifiers in the form of Name References (which may or many resolve

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Fuller
Saw them, smiled, threw them in the bin. I can't present a use case for Literals as Subject, but I did have a relevant experience recently when having written a reasoner for sindice I was briefly intrigued to discover that executing some owl rules leads to a production of statements where

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Henry Story wrote: On 1 Jul 2010, at 16:35, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Hello Kingsley! [snip] IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Dan Brickley
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Sandro Hawke san...@w3.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:10 +0100, Nathan wrote: In all honesty, if this doesn't happen, I personally will have no choice but to move to N3 for the bulk of things, and hope for other serializations of N3 to come along. RIF

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
Sandro Hawke wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:10 +0100, Nathan wrote: In all honesty, if this doesn't happen, I personally will have no choice but to move to N3 for the bulk of things, and hope for other serializations of N3 to come along. RIF (which became a W3C Recommendation last week) is

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Yves Raimond wrote: Hello! IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have Identifiers in the form of Name References (which may or many resolve to Structured Representations of Referents carried or borne by Descriptor Docs/Resources). An

Typo Fix: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Kingsley Idehen wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Hello! IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have Identifiers in the form of Name References (which may or many resolve to Structured Representations of Referents carried or borne by Descriptor

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Henry Story henry.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 Jul 2010, at 18:18, Yves Raimond wrote: In any case RDF Semantics does, I believe, allow literals in subject position. It is just that many many syntaxes don't allow that to be expressed, It doesn't seem to be

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Nathan wrote: Dan, Jeremy, Pat, Henry, Michael, Kinglsey, Ivan, ack.. everyone, Part of me feels like I should apologise for bringing this to the mailing list (even though it was inevitable) - this is all getting out of scope and the last thing we need is one of the most critical communities

Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Rob Styles wrote: On 1 Jul 2010, at 14:05, Ed Summers wrote: Wonderful post Dan. I think the work you and others have been doing w/ Facebook on the OpenGraphProtocol is a great example of how we ought to be thinking about the future of RDF ... building vocabularies to describe web

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Jeremy! One example on the top of my head. You have a 'magic predicate' such as Virtuoso bif:contains, but slightly more expansive than that (a large index lookup, a difficult mathematical computation or fuzzy literal search, etc). If you were able to store the result in RDF once that magic

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Or, an even simpler use-case: storing metaphones for strings in a triple store. y On 1 Jul 2010 18:15, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jeremy! One example on the top of my head. You have a 'magic predicate' such as Virtuoso bif:contains, but slightly more expansive than that

Lexvo.org - a semiotic approach to Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi all Re-naming the subject to try and get out of the general noise :) I'm been following this noisy thread with amazement. I've no clear position on the issue, just take the opportunity to attract the attention of the community to the work of Gerard de Melo at Lexvo.org [1] which has been

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Dan Brickley
(cc: list trimmed to LOD list.) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Cut long story short. [-cut-] We have an EAV graph model, URIs, triples and a variety of data representation mechanisms. N3 is one of those, and its basically the foundation that

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Jeremy Carroll
On 7/1/2010 10:18 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: Or, an even simpler use-case: storing metaphones for strings in a triple store. OK - and why are these use cases not reasonably easily addressable using the N-ary predicate design pattern with a two place ltieral predicate i.e. instead of

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi Dan, Kingsley Happy to see you expose clearly those things that have been also in the corner of my mind since Kingsley started to hammer the EAV drum a while ago. I've been also in training and introduction to RDF insisted on the fact that RDF was somehow just an avatar of the old paradigm

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Jeremy Carroll
On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:38, Jeremy Carroll wrote: I have loads and loads of code, both open source and commercial that assumes throughout that a node in a subject position is not a literal, and a node in a predicate position is a URI node. On 7/1/2010 8:46 AM, Henry Story wrote: but is

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Robert Sanderson wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: 3. Dates represented as character strings in some known date format other than XSD can be asserted to be the same as a 'real' date by writing things like 01-02-1481

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Dan Brickley wrote: (cc: list trimmed to LOD list.) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Cut long story short. [-cut-] We have an EAV graph model, URIs, triples and a variety of data representation mechanisms. N3 is one of those, and its

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Tim Finin
On 7/1/10 2:51 PM, Henry Story wrote: ... So just as a matter of interest, imagine a new syntax came along that allowed literals in subject position, could you not write a serialiser for it that turned 123 length 3 . Into _:b owl:sameAs 123; length 3. ? So that really you'd have to

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Henry Story
Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/ On 1 Jul 2010, at 21:03, Tim Finin wrote: On 7/1/10 2:51 PM, Henry Story wrote: ... So just as a matter of interest, imagine a new syntax came along that allowed literals in subject position, could you not write a serialiser for it that turned

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Jiří Procházka
On 07/01/2010 09:11 PM, Henry Story wrote: Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/ On 1 Jul 2010, at 21:03, Tim Finin wrote: On 7/1/10 2:51 PM, Henry Story wrote: ... So just as a matter of interest, imagine a new syntax came along that allowed literals in subject position, could

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Jeremy Carroll
On 7/1/2010 11:51 AM, Henry Story wrote: So just as a matter of interest, imagine a new syntax came along that allowed literals in subject position, could you not write a serialiser for it that turned 123 length 3 . Into _:b owl:sameAs 123; length 3. ? I couldn't because chunks of

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Antoine Zimmermann
Jeremy, et al., I think people are already showing the money but they do it 2 cents after 2 cents ;-) Here is my little 2 cent contribution. To start with, I am on the side of the people in favour of allowing literals in the subject position. I've read the discussion and pondered the

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
Antoine Zimmermann wrote: Jeremy, et al., I think people are already showing the money but they do it 2 cents after 2 cents ;-) Here is my little 2 cent contribution. To start with, I am on the side of the people in favour of allowing literals in the subject position. I've read the

PRISM data on the LOD cloud?

2010-07-01 Thread Hondros, Constantine
Has any PRISM content ever made it into the LOD cloud? PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) is a metadata standard that can be encoded as RDF/XML (as well as XML, and XMP), which has been developed by an impressive industry consortium [1], and which, as far as I can

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Dan Brickley wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: The sequence went something like this. TimBL Design Issues Note. and SPARQL emergence. Before that, RDF was simply in the dark ages. It's only simple if you weren't there :) You

Re: PRISM data on the LOD cloud?

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Hondros, Constantine wrote: Has any PRISM content ever made it into the LOD cloud? PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) is a metadata standard that can be encoded as RDF/XML (as well as XML, and XMP), which has been developed by an impressive industry consortium

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Dan Brickley
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: The sequence went something like this. TimBL Design Issues Note. and SPARQL emergence. Before that, RDF was simply in the dark ages. It's only simple if you weren't there :) You mean you didn't see me lurking

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Gearon
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: snip/ Something else that keeps coming up, a subset of owl always comes in to conversations, obviously owl:sameAs - there was a proposal from one Jim Hendler [1] at a RDF workshop thing to perhaps do something about moving these

RDFS 3

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
swapping subject as I know a lot are simply ignoring the previous thread and this should be considered separately ;) Paul Gearon wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: snip/ Something else that keeps coming up, a subset of owl always comes in to conversations,

Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
http://www.semanticoverflow.com/ This is a good step, I wonder if it's known. Unfortunately, the questions are already intimidating. Side thought: what questions do newcomers have; and why don't we ask them on behalf of the newcomers? (FAQ in reverse) For instance:

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Dan Brickley wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: The sequence went something like this. TimBL Design Issues Note. and SPARQL emergence. Before that, RDF was simply in the dark ages. It's only simple if you weren't there :)

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Toby Inkster
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:05:54 -0400 Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: W3C only officially acknowledges RDF/XML as Markup Language for RDF Data Model. I hear this time and time again, but it is not true anymore. XHTML+RDFa 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation in October 2008. It has the

LinkedData DI updated to include N3

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
fyi: TimBL has just updated http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html to now read: 3- 'When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL)' .. 'The basic format here for RDF/XML, with its popular alternative serialization N3 (or Turtle).' To

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Toby Inkster wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:05:54 -0400 Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: W3C only officially acknowledges RDF/XML as Markup Language for RDF Data Model. I hear this time and time again, but it is not true anymore. XHTML+RDFa 1.0 became a W3C

Re: LinkedData DI updated to include N3

2010-07-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Nathan wrote: fyi: TimBL has just updated http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html to now read: 3- 'When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL)' .. 'The basic format here for RDF/XML, with its popular alternative serialization N3 (or

Re: The Ordered List Ontology

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:16 AM, Sandro Hawke wrote: Well, JSON is a syntax for serializing some kinds of data used in programming languages; it's not a programming language itself. I expect W3C will be doing some more work in bridging RDF and JSON soon; my most recent (unofficial)

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 1, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Henry Story wrote: On 30 Jun 2010, at 21:09, Pat Hayes wrote: For example I've heard people saying that it encourages bad 'linked data' practise by using examples like { 'London' a x:Place } - whereas I'd immediately counter with { x:London a 'Place' }.

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Steve Harris wrote: On 2010-07-01, at 03:20, Hugh Glaser wrote: In fact, a question I would like to ask, but suspect that noone who can answer it is still reading this thread ( :-) ): For those who implement RDF stores, do you have to do something special to

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Nathan wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Tim Finin wrote: On 7/1/10 2:51 PM, Henry Story wrote: ... So just as a matter of interest, imagine a new syntax came along that allowed literals in subject position, could you not write a serialiser for it that turned 123 length 3 . Into _:b owl:sameAs 123;

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
Pat Hayes wrote: On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: A literal may be the object of an RDF statement, but not the subject or the predicate. Just to clarify, this is a purely syntactic restriction. Allowing literals in subject position would require **no change at all** to the

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
Hey, guys. It is perfectly fine to use OWL properties in RDF. The RDF specs actually encourage this kind of semantic borrowing, it was always part of the RDF design to have this happen. So no need to have a version of owl:sameAs in the RDFS namespace. Just use the OWL one. Pat On Jul 1,

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Gearon
Hi Pat, On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: Hey, guys. It is perfectly fine to use OWL properties in RDF. The RDF specs actually encourage this kind of semantic borrowing, it was always part of the RDF design to have this happen. So no need to have a version of

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
Paul Gearon wrote: Hi Pat, On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: Hey, guys. It is perfectly fine to use OWL properties in RDF. The RDF specs actually encourage this kind of semantic borrowing, it was always part of the RDF design to have this happen. So no need to

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Nathan wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Nathan wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: A literal may be the object of an RDF statement, but not the subject or the predicate. Just to clarify, this is a

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Paul Gearon wrote: Hi Pat, On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: Hey, guys. It is perfectly fine to use OWL properties in RDF. The RDF specs actually encourage this kind of semantic borrowing, it was always part of the RDF design to

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Nathan
Pat Hayes wrote: On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Nathan wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Nathan wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Yves Raimond wrote: A literal may be the object of an RDF statement, but not the subject or the predicate. Just to clarify,