[XESAM] Ontology sketch. Feedback needed. This time with attachment.

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Friday 01 June 2007 11:16:55 Leo Sauermann wrote:
> It was Evgeny Egorochkin who said at the right time 31.05.2007 16:40 the
>
> following words:
> > On Thursday 31 May 2007 17:27:46 jamie wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:50 +0300, Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:50:24 Antoni Mylka wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 3) RDF object is always literal. Can't directly reference
> >>> resources.(has workarounds).
> >>
> >> what are the workarounds?
> >
> > The workaround is to specify an URI as a literal and hope software
> > understands this in cases like linking archive contents.
>
> I miss the whole discussion, but RDF objects in statements are either
> literal, blank nodes, or URIs.
> like this (turtle syntax):
> <file://home/dirk/blub.txt> nie:myExampleUri <http://exampleuri>.
> <file://home/dirk/blub.txt> nie:myExampleString "Unterzögersdorf".

Yes, but xesam decided to limit objects to literals only(as well as other 
limitations) and lift them only if it is necessary.

That is xesam is fully RDFS-compliant, yet we implement the smallest necessary 
subset of it for performance, coding complexity and other considerations.

--Evgeny