[foaf-dev] RDF triple assertions live forever?

[Phillip Rhodes]

Semantic Web community:

In a discussion that has arisen recently on the foaf-dev list, somebody
pointed out that they've been told that RDF triples live forever.  That =

is, once something is asserted it is considered asserted until, as it
was put, "the entropic heat death of the universe."

This seems counter-intuitive to me, as I can see plenty of data - which =

might be expressed in RDF - which changes, expires, or is otherwise
not valid for perpetuity.

Can anyone here elaborate on this?  Is it really a widely held axiom =

that triple assertions "live" forever?  If so, what is the =

justification, and how does one deal with changing data that would
invalidate a previous assertion?


TTYL,


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Phillip Rhodes
Chief Architect - OpenQabal
https://openqabal.dev.java.net
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/philliprhodes
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