- From: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:56:39 -0800
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- CC: SWIG <semantic-web@w3.org>
Frank Manola wrote: > > Garret-- > > Assuming I understand what you're talking about, this *isn't* a > conflict with the relational model. To flesh out your example a bit, > suppose you have a paper, book, or article, and want to record subject > descriptors. Likely there would be multiple values for "subject", and > your relation to represent that would be > > Subject(publicationID, value) > > with tuples like (12345 is the publication identifier): <12345, > semantic web>, <12345, database>, etc. Oh, I think I see where we're thinking cross-ways. I was thinking of each resource as constituting a distinct relation. You're envisioning that a particular RDF graph has exactly *one* relation, with each triple constituting a tuple in that relation, correct? Garret
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