Re: MV counterexample

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 00:57:55 +0200
Message-ID: <409ac2f4$0$15375$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:

> mAsterdam wrote:

>>Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>>>Combining these very conceptually simple concepts of: 
>>>string (of data), graph (for navigation), and function  
>>>(mapping) with data is so intuitive for
>>>the human brain that I would guess that 
>>>if you put these concepts together
>>>into some sort of web of information, 
>>>it just might catch on in a world-wide fashion.
>>
>>Nah. Incomplete. No enforced referential
>>constraints.

>
> I don't know about that -- I see entire propositions, including child
> clauses, altogether on a single page. So, there are SOME such constraints.
> When the page is removed, the child clauses seem to be gone too.

Nice. A page as a piece of a database.

A good set of DTD's would be needed as
a cornerstone to another distributed
database (than the last one
we talked about, but similar in working).

Maybe http://web.resource.org/rss/
is a step in that direction.

>>You would get stale links in no time, and your database
>>would be corrupted. End of exercise.

>
> It would surely be useless if there were any
> "page not found" responses --
> human beings would not put up with that ;-)

Totally unacceptable from a
conceptual integrity point of view.

> It isn't rocket science to prepare a web site that has no problem links if
> you have control of all linking and linked pages. But once that is not the
> case -- once you have a link from a zip code in your data to a map that
> shows where that zip code is located and you don't control the map, then you
> might have a missing link. We have seen cases where users can put up with
> that for the advantages they get when the link is there.
>

>>It would make a nice TLA, though.

>
> and it seems to be a model "IN PRODUCTION" at practially every company --
> quite impressive that WWW "data model" eh? --dawn

Yup. Received on Thu May 06 2004 - 17:57:55 CDT