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• 05:59:57 pm on July 14, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: ontology, owl, rdf, xml, xml schema
  

  “While extensibility of a given XML DTD or schema must be designed into it from the start, RDFS and OWL schemas allow a lot more flexibility and therefore more possibilities to build on the work of others.”

  “… it’s much easier to combine multiple RDFS/OWL schemas for a single application than it is to combine multiple XML schemas/DTDs.”

  http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2009/04/semantic-web-technology-and-hu.html

   

• 10:55:24 pm on July 9, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: n-aryRelations, semanticweb
  

  Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web
  http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-n-aryRelations/

   

• 12:35:38 pm on July 9, 2009 | 0 | # |
  
  

  CouchDB – Schema-Free: Unlike SQL databases which are designed to store and report on highly structured, interrelated data, CouchDB is designed to store and report on large amounts of >>semi-structured, document oriented data<<. http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/intro.html

   

• 11:09:07 am on July 1, 2009 | 0 | # |
  
  

  The data model (not “format”) is called RDF (vs relational, not vs XML) http://artofsystems.blogspot.com/2009/06/semantic-web-or-generic-at-war-with.html

   

• 08:47:10 am on May 25, 2009 | 0 | # |
  
  

  Semi-Structured Data? http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~ptw/teaching/ssd/slide3.html

   

• 08:19:21 am on May 25, 2009 | 0 | # |
  
  

  “RDF as a flexible semi-structured graph model has value even if you aren’t using it on the web.” (source)
  - Leigh Dodds