On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Yes, I realize that you were asking Richard, but I'm a bit forward, as we
> know. I do NOT see a description as atomic in the sense that a record is
> atomic. A record has rigid walls, a description has permeable ones. A
> description always has the POTENTIAL to have a bit of unexpected data
> added; a record cuts off that possibility.
>
> That said, I am curious about the permeability of the edges of a named
> graph. I don't know their degree of rigidity in terms of properties allowed.
>
Named graphs were supposed to be invariant under the original proposal;
there is a lot of mess around the semantics right now. Dan Brickley wrote
a very nice example : http://danbri.org/words/2011/11/03/753 .
Simon
Received on Tue Dec 13 2011 - 16:25:29 EST