- From: Mariano Rodriguez <rodriguez@inf.unibz.it>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:04:27 +0100
- To: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
- Cc: Semantic Web List <semantic-web@w3.org>
A comment on the side, having a Unary/Binary/Ternary view of the data can be seen only as that, a view. Today it is possible to have a n-ary logical storage of the data, together with the more abstract representation. See for example [1] particular the section about virtual OBDA. [1] http://obda.inf.unibz.it/protege-plugin/quest/quest.html On Nov 3, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > 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? > -- > Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - decoy@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front > +358-50-5756111, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 >
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