Ah, I misunderstood your use of the word “name” to mean an rdfs:label or 
something like that.

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A. Soroka
The University of Virginia Library

> On Feb 1, 2016, at 7:26 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 31/01/16 19:49, A. Soroka wrote:
>> I’ve got a question about a remark of Andy’s here: 
>> https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/123#issuecomment-177246334
>> 
>> "In the Fuseki case, we want shared datasets descriptions, that is, same 
>> name, to yield the same dataset."
>> 
>> Wouldn't we rather use actual URIs to refer to dataset descriptions to make 
>> them coincide? Is the use of names as inverse functional properties to do 
>> this a historical artifact of the way that assembler RDF evolved, or was 
>> there some reason to do it this way instead of using something more like 
>> "same URI = same thing”?
>> 
>> ---
>> A. Soroka
>> The University of Virginia Library
>> 
> 
> A name is something that identifies.  IFPs are one way but where the "name" 
> here is the subject of the description (which can be a blank node or URI).
> 
> 
>    fuseki:dataset   <#dataset> ;
> <#dataset> rdf:type ja:RDFDataset
> 
> 
> 
> fuseki:dataset [ rdf:type ja:RDFDataset ;
>                  ...
>                ] ;
> 
>    Andy
> 

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