Thanks Denny,

Yes, I understand that o:Fact is an inaccurate name. I have been trying to
think of an alternative to Statement (assertion, claim, declaration etc.)
but can't think of anything better than Statement :)

It should be very clear that it is different to rdf:Statement with time.


nick.


On 04/02/2013 13:03, "Denny Vrandečić" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>We are reluctant, but open, to renaming it. But not to "Fact". Statement
>has the nice ambiguous quality regarding its correctness which Fact lacks.
>
>
>On the other hand, the similarity to rdf:Statement is not merely
>syntactic, so I do not see too much of an issue here.
>
>
>
>2013/2/1 Nicholas Humfrey <[email protected]>
>
>Hello,
>
>My colleague Yves Raimond and myself were just having a quick chat about
>the Wikidata RDF serialisation plans.
>
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/RDF
>
>
>While the reification makes sense, we thought that it looked a bit too
>much like rdf:Statement.
>
>w:Berlin s:Population Berlin:Statement1 .
>
>Berlin:Statement1 rdf:type o:Statement .
>
>
>
>Perhaps you could rename o:Statement to o:Fact instead?
>
>
>nick.



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