RE: relational data as a bona fide member of the SM

Sampo,

Check out http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/d2rq/ and
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: decoy@kapsi.fi [mailto:decoy@kapsi.fi] On Behalf Of Sampo
Syreeni
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:57 AM
> To: Semantic Web List
> Subject: relational data as a bona fide member of the SM
> 
> As a relational minded guy, I wonder why there aren't any genuinely
> relational minded formats/syntaxes/data around, which still embody the
> SemWeb/LinkedData mindset. I mean, that ought to be pretty easy to do,
> and it then ought to bring all of the benefits which once made RM so
> great and overpowering.
> 
> Why precisely do all of the semweb formats stay ternary, thereby
> forcing
> themselves to reify any higher arity, and as such complicate the
> processing of higher arity data by adding an extra reification layer?
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