This blog post from "Voyages of the Semantic Enterprise" discusses issues related to the title question, including a brief history of data modelling and how the RDF Data Model and the way it differs from the traditional relational model, mainly by allowing for much greater conceptual modelling.
URL: http://topquadrantblog.blogspot.com/search/label/RDF
Keywords: Ontology, Relational Model, Web Ontology Language (OWL), RDF Schema, Triple, RDF, HTTP URIs
Author: Polikoff, Irene
Publisher: TopQuadrant
Date created: 2011-09-30 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P20M
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Educational audience: generalPublic
Interactivity type: mixed