Re: Linked Data Platform ISSUE-20: What is the base URI of a POSTed document?

On 10/11/12 8:03 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote:
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> On 11/10/12 12:29, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 10/11/12 5:06 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote:
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>>> Aside: I think this is pushing it a bit too far - RDF is a data model,
>>> Turtle a transfer syntax.  The Turtle bytes aren't the data - the RDF
>>> triples (absolute URIs) are.
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>> I don't understand your comment above. How are "absolute URIs" the data?
>> URIs simply denote entities. In this case, they denote entities in an
>> RDF graph (content in the form of structured data accessible from an
>> address).
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> An RDF graph is triples, triples are comprised of IRIs, bNodes and 
> literals. 

Yes.

> These denote resources (caveat about bNodes).

Yes, but I prefer to say they denote entities (anything).

> The resources are not in the RDF graph - they are referenced from the 
> graph

Yes.

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> 3.1 Graph Data Model
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-data-model

But none of what you've just outlined correlates with your statement re. 
"absolute URIs" being the data. The data (the content and actual 
resource) is referenced by way of denotation and accessed via 
de-reference, leveraging name (denotation) indirection.

Kingsley

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>     Andy
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