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by Alex3917 5196 days ago
"The problem is that the relations turn it into the Semantic Web"

Not really. Assuming there are only four or five simple relationships like "Knowing fact X is necessary to understand fact Y", then the whole system isn't much more complicated than trackbacks for blog posts.

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If it was that simple, it would already have been solved. The problem is that relations are for any data point and they can be one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many; and mixes metadata with data seamlessly. It's a hard problem, make no mistake, but completely solvable. I have an approach I'm working on that I'll email you, if you're interested.
Sure, send me an email.