- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 13:07:04 -0500
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Andrew Newman wrote: >>Using "s,p,o" as unique identifier is out of >>the bounds of the RDF datamodel. >> > > > I'm not sure you should be too hamstrung by what is and isn't in the RDF > data model when creating an efficient way of storing/modelling RDF. The > constraints of RDF can be applied on top of a much more efficient model. > This means most of the time, I think, creating a simpler model not a more > complicated one like creating a surrogate key from the s,p,o or making URI > Refs, bnodes and literals all the same type and making triples/statements > out of that. > > That's fine for a particular implementation to to internally. The real trick is how to get the corresponding information into an interchange syntax so someone else can make use of it. Cheers, Tom P
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