Catching up on some overdue responses …<\/p>\n\n
In the context of the\nthat Ben Carlye piece<\/a>,\nHenry Story writes<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n What I meant was property instances<\/em>, which is how the word\n“property” is commonly used in the context of Java Beans. For example,\n“name” is a property in RDF, but “Mark” would be a literal that, in the\ncontext of an assertion, is the value of an instantiation of the property.\nAt least that’s the terminology that I’ve come to use, since I have some\nexperience with explaining this to people (buy me a beer sometime, I’ve\ngot stories).<\/p>\n\n I agree that the property has a URI in RDF\/OWL, but the instantiation of\nthat property never ever gets a URI in RDF (except via reification, which\ncan safely be ignored).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catching up on some overdue responses … In the context of the that Ben Carlye piece, Henry Story writes; In my previous post I argued with Mark Baker that there is a difference between properties and object references. There is, but it is only a difference of emphasis. As I pointed out in RDF there […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nIn my previous post I argued with Mark Baker that there is a difference between properties and object references. There is, but it is only a difference of emphasis. As I pointed out in RDF there is no fundamental distinction between both. They are both URIs.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n