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can we remove the need for ordered collections?

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

The tagtriples thing has also let me experiment with ways to get around some of the not-so-beautiful areas of the RDF spec. One of these areas is ordered collections.
It occurred to me, (well, actually it occured to Julian Bond and he mentioned it to me a while ago in a conversation about R ... Continue reading »

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  • Jimmy Cerra

    4 years ago

    I don't think I agree. Right now RDF is to directed graphs is like what S-expressions are to lists. If the order of statements was significant then it would drifting a lot further away from that ideal. Yet, it is the directed graph intepretation which makes RDF more useful for some types of data modeling than plain-old XML. Besides, it is too late to change RDF significantly. Too many applications already depend on the current interpretation.
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  • Phil Dawes

    4 years ago

    Jimmy Cerra Writes:
    Yet, it is the directed graph intepretation which makes RDF more useful for some types of data modeling than plain-old XML.

    Definately, but retaining statement order doesn't mean ditching the directed-graph interpretation.

    it is too late to change RDF significantly. Too many applications already depend on the current interpretation.

    Of course you're right, but it's interesting to explore the idea.
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