- From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:34:31 +0100
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- Cc: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Received on Sunday, 27 September 2009 22:35:13 UTC
HI Fank > > You state that you see some potential conflict and unreliability. Could > you describe these a little more, since I'm thinking that that if these are > problems with RDF, they are problems with relational databases too? Or > could you describe what you believe the difference is between modeling in > RDF and modeling in relational databases (aside from RDF restricting you to > binary relations)? > As I said, I dont have a case study, but I would be interested to verify if (untested hypothesis) the fact that RDF can be used to represent two things, class:relation:class class:attribute:value can cause problems (resolution conflits) when querying large heterogeneous datasets I would be reassured to hear that this is not the case, and if so then please point me to relevant sources..... thanks! PDM
Received on Sunday, 27 September 2009 22:35:13 UTC