Re: RDF and its discontents

2010-07-07 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Paul, thanks a lot for your very insightful experience report about Semantic Web, RDF and DBPedia. (more thoughts inline) Am 02.07.2010 17:07, schrieb Paul Houle: Here are some of my thoughts [skip] (4) I'm one of the people who got interested in semantic tech because of DBPedia,

Re: RDF and its discontents

2010-07-05 Thread Ivan Mikhailov
Hello Paul, On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 11:07 -0400, Paul Houle wrote: Here are some of my thoughts (2) Yet, the big graph and triple paradigms run into big problems when we try to build real systems. There are two paradigms I work in: (i) storing 'facts' in a database, and (ii) processing

RDF and its discontents

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Houle
Here are some of my thoughts (1) The global namespace in RDF plus the concept that most knowledge can be efficiently represented with triples are brilliant; in the long term we're going to see these two concepts diffuse into non-RDF systems because they are so powerful. I appreciate the way

Re: RDF and its discontents

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Story
On 2 Jul 2010, at 17:07, Paul Houle wrote: ow, if hardware cost was no object, I suppose I could keep triples in a huge distributed main-memory database. Right now, I can't afford that. (If I get richer and if hardware gets cheaper, I'll probably want to handle more data, putting me

Re: RDF and its discontents

2010-07-02 Thread Pat Hayes
Paul, please keep these thoughts coming. I have a couple of followups, inline below. On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Paul Houle wrote: Here are some of my thoughts (1) The global namespace in RDF plus the concept that most knowledge can be efficiently represented with triples are

Re: RDF and its discontents

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Houle
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Henry Story henry.st...@gmail.com wrote: So similarly with RDF stores. Is it not feasible that one may come up with just in time storage mechanisms, where the triple store could start analyising how the data was used in order then to optimise the layout of