relational data as a bona fide member of the SM

• From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
• Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:57:08 +0200 (EET)
• To: Semantic Web List <semantic-web@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1111030952210.32593@lakka.kapsi.fi>

As a relational minded guy, I wonder why there aren't any genuinely 
relational minded formats/syntaxes/data around, which still embody the 
SemWeb/LinkedData mindset. I mean, that ought to be pretty easy to do, 
and it then ought to bring all of the benefits which once made RM so 
great and overpowering.

Why precisely do all of the semweb formats stay ternary, thereby forcing 
themselves to reify any higher arity, and as such complicate the 
processing of higher arity data by adding an extra reification layer?
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