- From: Aki Kivela <akivela@gripstudios.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:02:09 +0300
- To: Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org
On 28.4.2014 18:23, Luca Matteis wrote: > The current Linked Data principles rely on specific standards and > protocols such as HTTP, URIs and RDF/SPARQL. Because I think it's > healthy to look at things from a different prospective, I was > wondering whether the same idea of a global interlinked database (LOD > cloud) was portrayed using other principles, perhaps based on > different protocols and mechanisms. > > Thanks, > Luca Hello Luca and all Topic Maps [1] represent an alternative/companion to the RDF in the LOD stack. Topic Maps replace the RDF resource with a topic (with some internal properties) and the RDF triplet with a role-aware hyperedge (association) between topics. We have been developing a Topic Maps based application called Wandora [2] for some time and honestly think it suits rather well for small-scale LOD despite the non-RDF data model. Kind Regards, Aki Kivela Wandora Team [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Maps [2] http://wandora.org/
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