Re: Directories of Projects to Webize

Perhaps a lay question,  but given the difference between how rdf works over traditional relational db's isn't it a critical application, architectural difference?  Using the web as a whole, rather than building a better silo??

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> On 13 Feb 2014, at 11:12 am, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 12 February 2014 19:09, cr <_@whats-your.name> wrote:
>> Melvin, i am wondering if you've defined "Web Scale" somewhere.
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>> see that term crop up regularly in marketing-materials in big-data/analytics land
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>> tends to mean "can you store/query 100 billion rows/records?
>>              "can 50% of reddit's userbase login to your server-farm without falling over?
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>> "is your mainframe big enough" for your walled-garden to fit a sizable chunk of web-users..
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>> this is really different from how i've seen you use the term web-scale,
>> more relating to localized regions of the web fan out to the rest in a cohesive way?
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> I dont have a specific definition of "web scale" other than the slightly boring "scales like the web".  I think the ideal is that when effort is put into interoperability the eco system can be useful to a small number of participants and also a large number, without changing the fundamental architecture too much.
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>> http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fractal.html is what you're talking about, i think
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> Thanks for the pointer.  This is a great article, perhaps we should term "scale free" more often too.  I dont know about zipf's law, but I do see the web operating in clusters that can be be potentially ljoined together.  Webizing is one way to do this.
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