Alex James has just written
an interesting piece titled: Who Controls Your
Model, that sets the stage for introducing the concept of "Self
Describing Data". To cut a long story short, RDF is one example of
a mechanism that facilitates the assembly/construction of
self-describing databases (built around a Concrete Conceptual
Model) that allows instance data to be serialized using open
serialization formats such as: XML, N3, Turtle, TriX.
Rich Internet Applications ultimately enable intelligent
processing of self-describing databases originating from data
servers as demonstrated by these examples:
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My Dynamic Data Web Start Page
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Chris Bizer Data Space
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Our
RDF Browser (just enter a Web URI e.g
http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/foaf.rdf or
http://www.openlinksw.com and then drill down; not Grandma's
unobtrusive Data Web Navigator, but headed in that
direction..)