Storing relationships
- Relationships that form and evolve on the web will be systematized, to they extent they can be, by an iterative process that combines grassroots participation with exploratory top-down design.
- -- Jon Udell
Many of the social web applications we have seen in the last months are essentially about combining data from different domains. The true value in these applications is in the relationships they store. This is why I am so excited about Hagen Overdick's work at xenodot.
What started as yet another way to map XML storage in SQL databases quickly evolved into a new concept of information storage that focuses on relationships between data of different domains. Furthermore Hagen embeds concepts from REST architectures and workflow modeling into the data store, allowing us to build exciting new applications for a changing web.
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