Fwd: RDF 2.0: N-ary vs Higher Order Arity

Hi Everybody,

I just saw a comment on a mailing list from Chris Welty about RDB2RDF. I'm
sharing it below.

Juan Sequeda
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: RDF 2.0: N-ary vs Higher Order Arity
To: swnyc@googlegroups.com

[...]

Regarding arity.  RDF is binary, but there are several well-known methods
for encoding higher-arity relations in a graph.  Since this is an important
part of any RDB to RDF conversion, I believe standardizing on an encoding
(so that e.g. RDF back-ends can optimize them) is in the purview of the new
RDB2RDF WG.

-Chris