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158  RDF and ZigZag(tm) structure are actually closely  From IRC, starting to explain what this is all about (by Benja)::
 related: ZigZag(tm) is obtained if a RDF graph is constrained  
 by two uniqueness conditions: for all x, y, there can be  
 at most one triple of the form (x, y, *),  and  
 at most one triple of the form (*, x, y).  
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160        > this was very good-- I think I understand *much* better now...
161        > first thing I realized was that before the last few days,
162          it has been Fenfire = 42 for me:
163        > I had a relatively clear idea about how it'll work, and it was
164          completely clear that this is the right way to do things--
165        > so I had the answer, so over the last few days I've
166          really been wondering, what was the question? ;-)
167        > the question, I think, is: How can hypermedia become an extension
168          to our mind? -- this has been the vision all along
169          since Vannemar Bush, in some senses at least, and also in
170          the mobile computing field in a sense
171        > so that we feel it like, well, an extension
172        > and the answer is: with an item-based hypermedial
173          (desktop? computing?) environment
174        > i.e., the point about fenfire/zz/hyperstructure is that it
175          *reifies the things you care about as first-class items*
176        > s/items/objects/
177        > How can hypermedia become the thing that we use daily,
178          without thinking about it, when we're thinking about
179          something *else*?
180        > this is what sets hyperstructure apart from e.g.
181          navigational hypertext:
182        > the things that you connect hypertextually are *concepts*
183        > ok, this isn't in itself a new idea I'm sure; there are systems
184          that use it, and Aquanet is one of them
185        > the point is to make *this* the basis of *all computing*
186        > which may be seen as an evolutionary step-- but there you are,
187          this is what we're doing
188        > everything else you do when you use your system wraps around that
189        > you don't have applications, which tell you how to think--
190          you have views that show a part of the structure in a useful way,
191          but still are woven into the item-based structure.
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196    RDF and ZigZag(tm) structure are actually closely
197    related: ZigZag(tm) is obtained if a RDF graph is constrained
198    by two uniqueness conditions: for all x, y, there can be
199    at most one triple of the form (x, y, *),  and
200    at most one triple of the form (*, x, y).

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