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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Frank Manola<fmanola@acm.org> wrote: > > > A variant on this might be a good way to tease out some of the issues people > have with RDF (or with definitions of data in general). Suppose we answered > Roger's original question by saying that data is anything that can fit into > a relational DBMS. The fit isn't always obvious (hence issues of database > design), but take that as a starting point. Now lets discuss the problems > folks have with that definition. Since anything you can fit into a > relational DBMS you can fit into RDF (with its own issues of "database > design"), presumably many of the problems will be the same. > The big difference is that RDF should be mostly all inclusive; metadata (well at least partial), relationships and data all laid out in one (or two if you count the schema) place. You won't see that big picture with a DBMS. -- Peter Hunsberger
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