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RDF-star Semantics TF

11 April 2025

Attendees

Present
AndyS, doerthe, enrico, gkellogg, pfps, Souri, TallTed, tl
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Chair
enrico
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enrico

Meeting minutes

discussion on what properties can or should link to triple terms? Issue #127

<tl> https://w3c.github.io/rdf-concepts/spec/#section-triple-terms

<Souri> :r rdf:reifies <<( :r2 rdf:reifies << :s :p :o )>> )>> .

<Souri> :r rdf:reifies :r2 . :r2 rdf:subReifies <<( :s :p :o )>> .

<tl> :r1 rdf:reifies :r2 .

<tl> :r2 rdf:reifies :r3 .

<tl> :r3 rdf:reifies <<( :s . :p :o )>>

<tl> :r1 :a :b .

<tl> :r2 :x :y .

<tl> :r3 :ho :hum .

<tl> << << << :s :p :o >> :ho :hum >> :x :y >> :a :b .

:r rdf:reifies <<( :r2 rdf:reifies <<( :s :p :o )>> )>> .

:r rdf:reifies <<( :r2 rdf:reifies _:x )>> .

_: x owl:sameAs <<( :s :p :o )>> .

<AndyS> Counting changes in SPARQL, which may or may not matter.

<tl> annotation syntax is one level. that's easy, and will hopefully be popular. i see no reason why that should not provide enough simplicity, and why we shouldn't stillallow more complex things in other syntax

<AndyS> Moving the burden onto the query authors - there are more query authors than other concern areas

Conclusion 1: we discussed about restricting (or suggesting to restrict) the usage of triple terms only as object of rdf:reifies, but we believe that their usage should be unrestricted.

<gkellogg> +0

<enrico> +1

<AndyS> +0

<doerthe> +1

<tl> +1

<TallTed> ±0

<niklasl> +0

Conclusion 2: we discussed restricting the usage of nested triple terms, by looking at approximations involving only non-nested triple terms, but we feel that this would be depending too much on the use cases. A rewriting of nested triple terms using owl:sameas would be always possible, but beyond RDF.

<tl> +1

<enrico> +1

<gkellogg> +0

<AndyS> +0.5

<TallTed> ±0

<niklasl> +0.1

<doerthe> +1 (but I think we should give souri the chance to further discuss his arguments)

<enrico> +1 to doerthe

I propose we bring these two issues to the WG

<niklasl> I sympathize based on at least how hard it is to think about propositions of propositions of propositions.

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