Database Reference
In-Depth Information
TABLEÂ 4.2
Individual Statements (Known as Triples) for Bay School
Bove is within Eagleton.
Bay School is within Bove.
Bay School has Postcode EA1 7GG.
Bove has Deprivation score 3.9.
EA1 7GG has Health Index 97.2.
Bay
School
Eagleton
Bove
is within
is within
h a s
Heal
th Ind
ex
EA17GG
97.2
3.9
FIGURE 4.2
Linked Data graph for Bay School.
4.4 IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS
What follows are our personal observations on designing solutions for the Semantic
Web and ones that underpin the rest of this topic:
1. No person has a God's eye view; this is a privilege reserved for God. The
Web is a reflection of the world and a world that is heterogeneous and eclec-
tic with diverse and often conflicting models used to describe different
aspects of it. There is no one complete and encompassing model. This has a
number of implications. First and foremost, the world and the Web are not
geocentric—we have to adopt a view that geography is but one component
of a much richer landscape. This also means that we cannot look to stan-
dards to provide global solutions; we also should not look to standards to
try to engineer out
necessary
d iversit y.
3
We must instead look to find effi-
cient ways to work with such diversity. This does not mean that we cannot
choose
to take a geocentric view when it is appropriate. But, when we do
so we need to remember that it is not the only view, not necessarily always
the most important view, and that we need to model the world in a way that
enables us to adopt different views when it is sensible to do so.
