- From: Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:02:29 -0500
- To: caro@Adobe.COM, RDF-list <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
So you want to discourage models like the mother of Chelsea is Hillary and a daughter of Hillary is Chelsea ??? I thought the point of RDF was to encourage interoperating vocabularies, not opposing motherhood in favor of daughterhood. Eric At 12:24 PM -0800 3/23/00, Perry A. Caro wrote: >I hope that cycles are discouraged, rather than encouraged. I agree that >the specification allows them (the RDFMS says "directed labeled graph", not >"directed labeled acyclic graph"), but I'm not sure it should be recommended >best practice. All of us poor implementors trying to persist our models in >RDBMS and similar cycle unfriendly systems have to deal with cycles, but the >assumption I've been making is that cycles will be uncommon. It's hard to >optimize lookups otherwise. > >Perry Eric Hellman Openly Informatics, Inc. http://www.openly.com/ 21st Century Information Infrastructure LinkBaton: Your Shortcuts to Information http://linkbaton.com/
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