Re: PRIMER: new draft data model section

Dan Connolly wrote:
> 
> Frank Manola wrote:
> [...]
> > My current understanding is that Ntriples was defined only as a
> > simplified notation to express test cases (it's only defined in the Text
> > Case document);  however, there may be an expanded role for it now.  I
> > use it in the Primer because it's a straightforward linearization of
> > the graph structure, which is the *model* I'm trying to convey.
> 
> whoa... a model is an interpretation that satisfies a
> formula/document (or set of formulas/documents).
> 
> ntriples isn't a representation of a model.


Not *that* kind of a model;  the "data model" kind of a model (as in
"the relational model").  The RDF "model" (in that sense), as in "Model
and Syntax", is that of a specific kind of graph.  Ntriples is a way to
linearize that kind of a graph (and I'm not talking about a particular
graph *instance*).  I'd be happy to use "data model" instead of "model"
for this usage, if that would help (ala "the RDF data model" in the
second paragraph of http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3)

--Frank

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