Re: files or database for solid pods [Was: Towards Solid Lite]

On 10/31/23 12:40 PM, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
>
> Le Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 01:52:50PM +0100, Melvin Carvalho a écrit :
>
>     Now I need a whole data base infrastructure of use cases that dont
>     require merging. Such as storing a document.
>
> Here is a document:
>
> :mydoc a ex:Document ; dc:title "Trick or Treats" ; ex:bytes 
> https://example.org/document/trick-or-treats.odt.
>
>     Saving a note.
>
> Here is a note:
>
> :mynote a ex:Note ; dc:title "What's in a note" ; ex:content "this is 
> a short note".
>
>     Then there are things which a triple store cant do. Such as saving
>     my family photos.
>
> Here is a photo collection:
>
> :myphotocollection a ex:PhotoCollection ; dc:title "Nicolas' photo 
> collection".
>
> :photo1 a ex:Photo ; dc:date "2023-10-31" ; dc:description "Me with a 
> phantom mask" ; ex:bytes https://s3.storage.example.com/123abc456def ; 
> ex:partOf :myphotocollection.
>
> :photo2 a ex:Photo ; dc:date "2023-10-31" ; dc:description "Me eating 
> candies" ; ex:bytes file:///~/photos/89/890xyz765opq ; ex:partOf 
> :myphotocollection.
>
> :photo3 a ex:Photo ; dc:date "2023-10-31" ; dc:description "Me running 
> away from zombies" ; ex:bytes 
> urn:mysolidpod:ABC345WhateverIdAllowsToGetItBackSomeway ; ex:partOf 
> :myphotocollection.
>
>     Storing a song or playlist. Uploading a video.
>
> You get the idea.
>
> That "everything is a FileSystem containing Documents/Bytes" assertion 
> does not strike me as obviously truer than "everything is a small 
> graph and some attributes are pointing to bytes".
>
> Am I missing something ?
>

No, that's the kind of abstraction facilitated by a Solid shim -- as I 
described earlier regarding our Virtuoso platform.

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