Re: FHIR RDF ordered list preferences?

2015-05-06 Thread Jim McCusker
Another alternative is PROV-DICTIONARY: http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/ Lists are a special case of mappings, especially if you've already conceded the use of explicit indices. Two possible benefits here are that a) it's already part of an accepted standard (but is itself

Re: FHIR RDF ordered list preferences?

2015-05-06 Thread David Booth
Property paths help for some queries, but it is still hard to query all items in a list (of unknown length) and get them back *in order*. See the explanation here: http://goo.gl/8PNuAG#heading=h.r5k2cm3j5iua David Booth On 05/06/2015 04:27 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: Lists aren't that bad anymor

Re: FHIR RDF ordered list preferences?

2015-05-06 Thread Jim McCusker
Lists aren't that bad anymore in SPARQL, now that property paths are available: http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2014/04/rdf-lists-and-sparql.html Jim On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM David Booth wrote: > In defining the RDF representation of FHIR data, we need to maintain > element ordering in som

FHIR RDF ordered list preferences?

2015-05-06 Thread David Booth
In defining the RDF representation of FHIR data, we need to maintain element ordering in some cases, both because ordering can be semantically relevant (such as listing someone's preferred mailing address first in a list of addresses), and to support round-tripping of FHIR RDF data back to FHIR