Re: Nested Sets vs. Nested Intervals

From: vc <boston103_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2005 05:56:38 -0800
Message-ID: <1131630998.268870.190590_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>


amado.al..._at_netcabo.pt wrote:
> <<In order to be more specific, would you please elaborate on the RDF
> algebra.
> like, give a definition of the algebra ?>>
>
> An RDF algebra is given in "RAL: an Algebra for Querying RDF" by
> Fransicar et al. There are others. I remember seing very nice
> discussions in the proceedings of the WWW conference some years ago.
>

No, that won't do. Please give your own RDF algebra definition, not necessarily formal. Surely it cannot be that complicated.

> For XML see: "TAX: A Tree Algebra for XML" by Jagadish et al. and
> "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics" by the W3C, which
> supersedes "The XML Query Algebra."
>
> For my own efforts see thread "Implementing a graph algebra."

You did not provide any definition of the algebra. Could you please do it now ?

>
> Please note that I do not particulary favour RDF. I am interested in
> more general languages, ideally one capable of solving the wild
> disparity of Semantic Web languages found today.

I do not understand what you mean.

> Maybe a bit like what
> Codd did in the 1970's w.r.t. the disparity of database models.

Also, you did not clarify what you've meant by a "semantic domain" as opposed to just a "domain". Could you offer a clarification ? Received on Thu Nov 10 2005 - 14:56:38 CET

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