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On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Peter Hunsberger wrote: > 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. You say RDF *should* be mostly all inclusive. Should I infer that you think it isn't? If so, in what way? What are some examples? I also don't understand what you're saying about the "big picture" you don't see with a DBMS. LIke what? Is it that there's stuff you *can't* put in the database, or stuff that people typically *don't* but in the database? --Frank > > -- > Peter Hunsberger
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