Re: Proposal: The "POI as a simple collection of links" data model

On 4 August 2011 15:56, Raj Singh <rsingh@opengeospatial.org> wrote:
> I love the "POI as a simple collection of links" data model in theory. It's very clean conceptually, and that's the way I've been thinking of the larger POI "picture" also. However, I don't think it's the best way to implement.
>
> I think we still need a few primitives. The only things that are in the model now that don't fit your links model are the label, some time fields, and the ___location. The label and the time fields are so natural to just stick in there. That brings us to ___location. The data URI seems awkward to me and likely to turn people off of the spec. However, I'm open to other opinions.

I like it too. Seems pretty much isomorphic to RDF, btw. Can it be
written out explicitly as a set of triples, eg. an unordered
collection of factoids that take one of these forms:

<thing1-URI> <propertytype-URI> "value " .

and


<thing1-URI> <propertytype-URI> <thing2-URI>.

...?

If so, it should be possible to write out this datamodel using any RDF
notation, store/query it in any RDF database, etc.

cheers,

Dan

Received on Thursday, 4 August 2011 14:02:07 UTC