The Semantic Web is a web of data, in some ways like a global database. When looking at a possible formulation of a universal Web of semantic assertions, the principle of minimalist design requires that it be based on a common model of great generality.
The semantic web data model is very directly connected with the model of relational databases. The Semantic Web is not designed just as a new data model - it is specifically appropriate to the linking of data of many different models. One of the great thi