[RDF] rdfdb

[Jonas Liljegren]

Christian Stamgren wrote:
> 
> I donīt say that RDFDB is the same thing as wraf i just say this maby is something to build from or maby "steal" some ideas from.
> 
> just som toughts maby in havnīt got the hole picture of wraf.

It's ok.

I have studied and taken input for years now.  It's not that we doesn't
apreciate new things. But that it's realy time to build on what we have
now.

And thats initialy my job... But we will have a release within a month.
And we will have the public CVS within a week.



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonas Liljegren" <jonas@paranormal.se>
> To: "Christian Stamgren" <christian@stamgren.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 2:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [RDF] rdfdb
> 
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Christian Stamgren wrote:
> 
> > Shure thing but i donīt think that we should reinvent the wheel if we donīt have to .........
> > i think that itīs right to use tool that are allready developed.
> 
> You would still have to do all the other things.
> 
> What RDFDB gives:
>   * import/unimport RDF xml-files
>   * insert/delete triples
>   * a basic query language
> 
> What RDFDB misses:
>   * It does not bind statements to models
>   * It does not make the 'fact' shortcut for reified statements
>   * No alias mechanism
>   * No container optimization
>   * No support for uri prefixes
>   * No support for blobs
>   * No URI asignment for statement
>   * No RDFS methods
>   * No checking of duplicate statements
> 
> The experience with the RDF Schema editor
> http://jonas.liljegren.org/perl/proj/rdf/schema_editor/ made us want to
> optimize for the most common case. That is: the realy heavy use of types
> and subClassOf and the constant use of label in the development
> enviroment.
> 
> It does make it easy to import RDF data and to make queries.  But it will
> not be a good place to store the bulk of the data from Wraf.
> 
> So: I would like to have an interface to RDFDB. It may be a little easier
> to do some queries.  But it doesn't cut back on the work we have to
> do.  RDFDB is too limited to be used as the main storage interface.  It
> should only be used with simple static data.
> 
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