Re: "Role of RSS in Science Publishing"

[Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:17:37 -0500, Bob Wyman <bob@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Ben Lund wrote:
> > However, with RDF, you can just concatenate the triples.
>         Would that really be the right thing to do?

Heh, thought that point might bite back...depends...

 In the example you gave,
> the two different sets of triples were generated by different authors and
> thus had differing contexts, trust metrics, authorship, etc. associated with
> them. My gut feeling tells me that "source" information would need to be
> preserved in most practical cases. While I see that in theory, simply
> concatenating the triples makes sense -- I'm not sure if it would make sense
> in the real world. Authorship/Attribution is important.

True, but it's not a problem. Provenance can be done where needed
using reification (you add a pile more triples) or by stepping outside
the current RDF logic and using things like named graphs.

Cheers,
Danny.

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