Re: ODBC driver for RDF?

[Sandro Hawke]

> I was trying to explain RDF to my sister who makes her living building
> database backed websites with Cold Fusion, and I had a good idea.
> Maybe it's been done.  I dunno.
>
> Someone should write an ODBC driver for RDF.  It would make the
> (nascent) universe of RDF data available on the web just look like
> another SQL database -- which my sister could format into web pages,
> or alter with web forms, etc, etc.
>

Interesting... Clearly any one statement could return its triple as a row.
What would play the role of a table?  The RDF data on one particular server
at one base URL? The fields would be pretty unintelligible to people unless
there were human-readable labels - where would they come from, if they were
not specifically supplied as labels by other RDF statements?  How should
anonymous and generated nodes be handled?

Cheers,

Tom P