- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:42:56 -0500
- To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>, "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>, "Patrick Stickler (NMP-MSW/Tampere)" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: "Graham Klyne" <GK@ninebynine.org>, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, <www-rdf-rules@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 11:08 AM -0800 11/20/03, Joshua Allen wrote: >> But despite the fact that we >> > don't even have the slightest freekin' semblance of a consistent >> > data-access architecture, >> >> We have the web. > >PUT/GET are a data-access architecture for documents, period. RDF is >not a document data model; it's a graph data model. If you want to shim >a document data model on top of your graph storage, then fine -- but you >better figure out how to interact with your graph storage first. Until >you have a consistent way of accessing your graph data model, you're >going to have a post-babel chaos. Sorry, just trying to change the name on this thread now that it no longer is really related to the issue of whether to form WGs at this time and if so which ones... -- Professor James Hendler http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-277-3388 (Cell)
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