Asunto: Re: Why Rdf?

Charles, i underestand what you are sawing. But, i see that i could do the
same if i have tables and each relationships. If i have to make a foaf relationship,
i can have 2 tables, and one column of one table "says" if that field is
a friend-of-someone or a subclass or another property. 
I am doing my master thesis of my University, and i want to underestand
which are the advantages of using rdf and not other languages with database
relationships. My doubt comes, because, i read a lot of rdf docs and Jena
docs, but now, i have to explain why i choose rdf and show a system working
with rdf.

thanks a lot for your help,
federico.
p.d: sorry for my english, is not perfect.

>-- Mensaje original --
>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:02:07 -0500 (EST)
>From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
>To: Federico Rozados <frozados@fibertel.com.ar>
>Cc: jena-dev@yahoogroups.com, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
>Subject: Re: Why Rdf?
>
>
>
>You could indeed do the same thing using servlets and jsp. Or COBOL. Some
>reasons why I would use RDF instead:
>
>1. When I want to migrate the project to a new computer/mobile phone/platform
>that has a different server setup I don't need to rewrite my code.
>
>2. When I want to extend the project with some new kind of information
I
>don't need to write new code for handling most of the extension. For example,
>to extend "foaf" applications to understand what language(s) people speak,
>and what their interests are, I simply need to render the extra RDF triples
>in a user interface. Passing around RDF means that I don't care what is
>inside it.
>
>3. Because it is a data format, not active code, I can decide at any time
>to
>search the data for email addresses coming from Spanish-speaking countries
>and suggest that people look at http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemWebSpain - the
>spanish Wiki page on RDF. To do this with jsp/servlets I need to write
a
>new
>interface to the data, so I need to understand the existing code as well
>as
>the data that is presented.
>
>cheers
>
>Chaals
>
>On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Federico Rozados wrote:
>
>>Hello all, how are you?.
>>
>>I have to develope something to show the usability of RDF, but i couldnīt
>>see why rdf i so important or which is the usability of rdf. I think that
>we
>>could do the same things using java servlets and jsp.
>>
>>can someone explain me why to use rdf?.
>>
>>thanks
>>federico.
>>
>
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