On Nov 3, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Robert Sanderson <azarot...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And it's not very hard given the right mindset -- its just a fully expanded
> relational database, where the identifiers are URIs.  Yes, it's not 1st
> year computer science, but it is 2nd or 3rd year rather than post graduate.

Okay, granted, but how many people do we know who can draw an entity 
relationship diagram? In other words, how many people can represent knowledge 
as a relational database? Very few people in Library Land are able to get past 
flat files, let alone relational databases. Yet we are hoping to build the 
Semantic Web where everybody can contribute. I think this is a challenge.

Don’t get me wrong. I think this is a good thing to give a whirl, but I think 
it is hard.

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ELM

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