[RDF] Deapth of search

[Jonas Liljegren]

Much of what I do is a result from discussions with Stefan Andersson.
He writes to me privately in Swedish, and I try to answer in english
in order to document the thoughts.

We have had the general idea for a long time now.  The continuing
discussion is aimed at resolving all the details.


Each statement is coupled to a model.  This is a base for a dynamic
property with the name #model.  You could maby also use the property
#statedBy, and that could stand both for the model and the person /
agent behind the model.  You can infer that if the statement is
#statedBy the modelm it's also #statedBy the person.

If you want to know who has stated a statement; should you calculate
both the answers and deliver them? ... Eventually, this will be
determined by the context in the forms of criterions for the desired
answer.  If you ask *who* stated the statement, you indicate that you
want a person.

This is a question of deapth of search.  If you find a teriffic
answer, you will stop the search earlier.  But as long as you don't
find an answer of the desired form, you will continue searching until
you give up. That is: first you get to know that it's the model that
stated the statement.  But if that answer doesn't satisfy you, you
will also know that it's the person behind the model that did it.

#statedBy is here just used as an example for the general concept.  It
was choosen because of the discussion about trust.



-- 
/ Jonas Liljegren

The Wraf project http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/
Sponsored by http://www.rit.se/