Re: Plain SQL representation(s) of SKOS

On 26/6/09 19:42, Simon Spero wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org
> <mailto:danbri@danbri.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi folks
>
>     While SKOS is an application of RDF, and makes use of various RDF
>     features, I'd like to ask if any of your have built (or know about)
>     plain SQL implementations of SKOS. This is to help advise on some
>     work that is based around elaboration of a simpler SQL taxonomy
>     structure. I would like some examples to show that are
>     SKOS-friendly, SKOS-centric or SKOS-based ... but which doesn't make
>     the complete jump to full unconstrained tables of RDF triples.
>     Anything around?
>
>
> Dan -
>
> SQL isn't really ideal, but this approach kinda sorta works: it is hard
> to keep things   clustered, and there can be a lot of database overhead
> for short rows.

Thanks Simon! I'll pass this along, it should illustrate things nicely.

cheers,

Dan

ps. don't suppose you've any running code that would import into this 
from RDF triples? :)

Received on Friday, 26 June 2009 17:51:59 UTC