Re: [Gzz] RDF?

[Benja Fallenstein]

Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> I have to say I'm not 100% sure yet either way.
>
> While RDF looks very promising and is standard and has a reasonable
> data model, there's a really big downfall:
>
> versioning.
>
> The RDF sequences are specified by the properties rdf:_1, rdf:_2, ...
> which means that an insertion to a sequence will have use remove and add
> a LOT of tuples.
>
> If we can handle this, should be ok.

My proposal is to use RDF collections for mostly everything, not RDF 
containers.

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/#collections

Collections are like LISP lists: 'this' + 'rest of list' records until 
the last 'rest of list' points to 'nil.' Makes the views work better, 
and versioning is like in zz.

(As RDF is bidirectional, you can follow 'rest of list' backward, 
obviously.)

- Benja