Re: Nulls, integrity, the closed world assumption and events

dawn wrote:
> I think we need to come up with some
> better understanding of and appreciation for a "wiki" or "web" data
> model, one that pre-dates the RM. Because it has been around for many
> years, there should be some good emperical data regarding the use of
> this model compared to the RM, but I have not seen it.

This statement made me feel physically nauseous for the poor people I know who have worked tirelessly and fruitlessly on graph data models. There is now an immense understanding of the 'web data model' and I know numerous people in both business and academia who feel they have completely and utterly wasted a decade of their life generating it in the name of the Semantic Web (at which /millions/ have been thrown by Hewlett Packard alone).

Perhaps it is not solely your fault that you are unaware that the Web data model has proven to be a complete and utter failure - the politics of funding requires not publishing results that destroy all of your job security or future income streams, so people's /abject/ disillusionment is substantially unreflected in publications. Nonetheless the theoretical discussion of its insufficiency should have been a good place to start. Received on Mon Jan 22 2007 - 02:15:28 CET