drewp for 2006 November 29 (entry 0)

[link] 2006-11-29T11:36:30 RDF literals as subjects:

Any proposal about allowing RDF literals as subjects, especially one that's for language purposes (in this case it's direction support), needs to address why RDF's current design has the exceptional 'language' attribute on literals. If your proposal is so good, why didn't RDF allow arcs from literals in the first place and avoid the langage/datatype special cases altogether?

I really know nothing about the direction support issue, but if it's one of the last few language-specific issues and it really ought to be separate from the 'langauge' attribute, I am inclined to prefer one more special case on literals than a total redo of the constraints on rdf graphs. My main concern with literals as subjects is that people will treat them like "casual" URIs that aren't universally unique.

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