Kingsley, just curious: your short tutorial suggests that you believe
I am saying otherwise. What am I missing? (01)
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Kingsley Idehen
<kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/11/14 11:59 AM, Frank Guerino wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> For a number of years, we've been working with Data Driven Synthesis as a
> means of rapidly generating Data Networks/Graphs and the Knowledge
> Constructs (e.g. Library Catalogs, Indexes, Taxonomies, Visualizations,
> etc.) that help humans make easier & better sense of them (If interested,
> see NOUNZ). Like many other Graph representations, we use "triples" or
> "triplets" to help represent Semantic Relationships, where descriptive
> Predicates are used as the binding between Subject Nodes and Object Nodes.
>
> To date, we've only treated Subjects and Objects as "Nodes" but we've always
> known that we can (and have planned to) implement and treat Predicates as a
> special type of "implicit" Node, as well. (Time didn’t' allow us to get to
> doing so, until now.) We believe that doing so grants users of Graphs
> certain benefits. We've identified three (3)…
>
> #1: The first and obvious advantage is that users can now enter a Graph from
> any Edge/Predicate as easily as they can enter from any Node, and start to
> traverse the Graph based on that point of entry.
>
> #2: The second advantage of treating Predicates as Nodes is that a Predicate
> can now be used as an "Index" or "Pointer" that allows users to quickly find
> all Nodes which are tied to said Predicate (or any Predicates that match
> certain traits). In other words, it's a way of asking the Graph to quickly
> identify all Nodes that are connected to a specific Edge/Link/Predicate (or
> any of a common set of Predicate traits). This means that, in addition to
> being able to ask "Node-oriented" questions of the Graph, you can now also
> ask "Predicate/Edge-oriented" questions of the Graph, as well. This leads
> to even more complex scenarios of being able to ask questions of, both,
> Nodes and Edges.
>
> #3: The third advantage (based on the second) is that traversal of a Graph
> can be even quicker, leading to even shorter paths, because instead of only
> traversing a Graph from Node-to-Node-to-Node, through Nodes, users can now
> traverse from any Edge/Predicate to any other Edge/Predicate, through
> Edges/Predicates.
>
> My question to the Community: Aside from the above three, do you see any
> other benefits that we're missing?
>
>
> If each part of a statement (e.g., an RDF triple) is denoted by a
> derefencable URI (e.g., an HTTP URI) you end up with a much deeper,
> web-like, and logically comprehensible graph, to both humans and machines.
> Generally, this concept is what's referred to as RDF [1] based Linked Data
> [2] and the result is a Semantic Web [3].
>
> Links:
>
> [1] http://bit.ly/1fluti1 -- RDF described from my own Glossary of terms doc
> (which in of itself is an RDF based Linked Data exploitation example)
> [2] http://bit.ly/1frjVhu -- Linked Data
> [3] http://bit.ly/1nxcpH9 -- Semantic Web .
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Kingsley Idehen
> Founder & CEO
> OpenLink Software
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