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Subject: Re: [higgins-dev] Telecon
to discuss alternatives to Node
So seems like a situation where we will continue to
vote/discuss until we get the right answer. We left the F2F meeting one night
with the understanding that we decided upon entity and the next morning it was
node, and that did not seem to be a consensus.
We should not be tied to RDF (as that may change like other things have), we
should name things because they make sense.
In diagram there is advantage to describing these as nodes, as Person Entity
and then we would have Postal Address Attribute, as Postal Address is not a
node.
Anthony Nadalin | Work 512.838.0085 | Cell 512.289.4122
"Paul
Trevithick" ---03/01/2008 11:46:24 PM---Although Entity was the winner of
the vote, it was decided at the Higgins call last Thursday that we needed a
dedicated call to
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[higgins-dev]
Telecon to discuss alternatives to Node
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Although
Entity was the winner of the vote, it was decided at the Higgins call last
Thursday that we needed a dedicated call to make sure that we’re all on the
same page as to exactly what we’re naming here. We felt that we needed at least
one of the folks proposing the winning “Entity” term to be present on the call
before we can finalize this issue. The non-Entity folks were not convinced that
we’re all seeing the problem (never mind the solution) the same way.
To try to get
to closure, I’ve created: http://doodle.ch/7sfxpr6hvu29wnys to pick a good time
on Wednesday to discuss this.
One more
thing...
Nodes don’t
just represent people and their interconnections in the social graph. Nodes
(along with Attributes) are the building blocks for representing everything: People, Groups, Events,
Documents, Postal Addresses in a Context.
Speaking of
which, here’s an example of a Node representing some partial aspect of a Person
Entity that has an attribute “hasAddress” whose value is a Node representing a
postal address. When the value of an attribute is a Node, we call this a
“complex” (as opposed to a literal) value. Literal values are drawn as squares.
[If you’re
familiar with RDF you’ll see that a Higgins Node is almost exactly the same
concept as an RDF node.]
If, after the
discussion, we all think we really are seeing the issues the same way, then
we’ll settle on Entity as the Node replacement, as it was the most popular
term.
-Paul
I did think of
one other word too: “item”.
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