Re: A comment on the Primer draft, section 2.1 Databases.

+1


On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Alan Wu wrote:

>
> Bijan, Peter,
>
> A small comment on section 2.1 Databases part. I agree with you  
> that completeness of information is
> a very important factor that distinguishes OWL from DB. However, I  
> am not so sure it is the most critical one.
> In my mind, the structure of data, completeness of information,  
> requirement on flexibility of schema
> (or adaptability to changes in general) and explicit constraint  
> enforcement are all critical factors in determining
> favoring one data modeling over the one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zhe
>
>

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