Re: Temporal validitity of subject indicators?

In message <[email protected]>, Lars Heuer 
<[email protected]> writes
>
>I think Patrick is right that "merging" is the problem, or the lack of
>unmerge.
>
>What's nice about RDF: They don't merge. :) You can still get a
>subject-centric view from RDF (collect all statements where X is the
>subject or object).
>
>They solve the "sameness" problem with an ontology. I find that very
>nice and it avoids irreversible merges.

Well, that's true so long as no-one uses owl:sameAs, which does have 
irreversible merging semantics.  (Assuming, of course, that your 
processor takes account of OWL semantics.)

Richard

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Richard Light