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> > But as far as I know (I might be wrong, please correct me if this is the > > case) > > RDF has no STANDARD! way to carry forward the origin of opinion. > > > > RDF does have a standard way to declare the origin of a statement (presume > an opinion is derived from a statement). This is the distinction between a > statement and stating and is the point of statement "reification". The point > is that since everything is a resource, one can make statements about > statements which is how I assume one might make a statement regarding the > origin of a statement. If I understand Nikita correctly (which I hope I'm finally beginning to), his point is not that there is no meta-statement facility at all, but that there is no standard vocabulary for the arcs from the reified statement to the node representing the attributed party (or vice versa). If I interpret him correctly, then, as I told him, this is not the role of RDF, and there is no reason not to just use the vocab from topic maps for this purpose. -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python
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