Continuing a thread about views in triple stores. Leigh Dodds pointed out the need for something like SQL’s views in RDF stores, and suggested vocabulary namespaces as a partitioning mechanism: The […] subset may be created by filtering out the classes and properties extracted from the database based on their namespaces. For example I might have a […]
The Folksonomy meme has been bouncing around the blogosphere for a couple of weeks. The idea is to categorize information (such as bookmarks or photos) by user-defined keywords, often called tags. This is especially powerful when combined with a social/collaborative component, such as in the popular web apps del.ici.ous and Flickr. The old-school alternatives are the […]
Leigh Dodds wants views in triple stores: Views are an important feature of relational databases, providing a way to abstract over complex queries, subset data to just the minium required for a given task, as well as providing a point around which a schema can be refactored without having to (immediately) change the applications that use […]
Phil Dawes suggests to deprecate RDF/XML. His plan for action: Deprecate RDF/XML as the default serialisation of RDF. Make it clear that it is tricky to write by hand (i.e. by putting this note in the W3C literature), and that if people want human-oriented xml interchange, they should use xml. Develop tools to make it easy to […]