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First Normal Form - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
First normal form
First normal form (1NF) is a property of a relation in a relational database. A relation is in first normal form if the domain of each attribute contains only atomic values, and the value of each attribute contains only a single value from that domain. [...] Edgar F. Codd's…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Bad reaction to technologies
[talking about a scholar who wouldn't accept the new technologies] To my mind it was because she could not separate the activities of research from the particular form they had historically assumed. Her love of books (which I share) momentarily blinded her to the true object of…
Rdf Primer
Blank node identifiers
Since a complex graph might contain more than one blank node, there also needs to be a way to differentiate between these different blank nodes in a triples representation of the graph. As a result, triples use blank node identifiers, having the form _:name, to indicate the…
Writing an RDF graph in RDF/XML
Although additional abbreviated forms for writing RDF/XML are available, the facilities illustrated so far provide a simple but general way to express graphs in RDF/XML. Using these facilities, an RDF graph is written in RDF/XML as follows: - All blank nodes are assigned blank…
Sumi-e - Beppe Mokuza
Sumi-e: art forms in which subjects are painted with black ink
The Japanese term “sumi” means “black ink” and “e” means “painting”. It indicates one of the art forms in which subjects are painted with black ink in all possible gradations ranging pure black to the lightest shades achievable by dissolving ink in water. However, this does not…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Form should be constrained by function
It is true, as we just have seen, that function doesn’t necessarily determine form. But it is also true that the form of a technological object must depend on the tasks it should help with. This is one of the most important principles to re-member when dealing with infographics…