Re: [DotGNU]Implement RDF in a Universal Data Structure

[Seth Johnson]

Norbert Bollow wrote:
> 
> Peter Minten <address@hidden> replied:
> 
> > In the infosphere (the world of info, cyberspace is a subset of it)
> > everything can be expressed using subject-link-object
> > terminology. So everything can be expressed as RDF.  Or more exactly
> > everything can be expressed as a web.
> 
> This is true.  However, it is also true that everything in the
> infosphere can be expressed as a stream of binary digits.
> 
> The real question is, what way of representing some information
> is useful for the task at hand?  The answer will depend on the
> information and on what you want to do with it.


. . . unless you have a universal data structure, designed so that "what you
want to do with" the information is already built in.

> 
> For example, in Abdabi (the service discovery system that I'm
> planning to put together) RDF will use used for input and
> output of service descriptions.  However, internally, for
> purposes of data processing (selecting an interesting subset
> of the available information) a different data representation
> will be used.


The CTP universal data structure means you can eliminate the task of
devising the physical data structure.  Just declare contexts that act as
conventions for how you will represent "services."

Then, until the world comes around, you can write export routines that
deliver the information to other systems in XML and RDF form.

Seth Johnson


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