Re: First-class data app scenarios?

On Monday 25 December 2006 11:01, Danny Ayers wrote:
> I was wondering whether anyone had any ideas (however "pet") on
> applications/domains which might lend themselves to compelling
> showcases, but that dealt primarily with "pure" data. By that I mean
> not focussed around metadata associated with human-readable content,
> but rather on Things.

I don't have any specifics, but I know folks who have replaced the usual 
SQL database with an RDF backend. Basically, they think of the RDF 
Model as the Model of a Model-View-Controller (a popular paradigm in 
application development). 

It has earned them a lot in terms of flexibility, as they can just throw 
anything at the model, it can be extended any direction, but has been 
painful in terms of performance. 

I think that it is an interesting direction, and one that I'd like to 
devote more time to, but there is no time right now.

Cheers,

Kjetil
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
Semantic Web Specialist
Opera Software ASA