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What's the advantages of plow over ipfs?

• hobofan 4y ago
  IPFS alone only gives you content addressing. So you'll need at the minimum some higher-level IPLD structure that allow you to express structures such as an ontology, etc.. That can be based on the Plow model, if you want. If you want a workable ecosystem that enables many decentralized parties to collaborate, the model of not-too-big-not-too-small packages that are interconnected via abstract dependencies (embodied by SemVer ranges), is still the gold standard to achieve this in my opinion. And breaking the mold of traditional monolithic slow-moving ontologies with high technical barriers to publish is one of the main motivating factors for building Plow (together with building a stable ontological layer that you can build other software on). I actually have worked on bridging the gap between semantic data tech and IPFS in the past[0] (both on a fine-granular per-concept level and a more coarse-grained ontology level), and I can just say that there are a ton of additional challenges if you want to do it right (and semtech is already challenging enough as it stands today). Conceptually, the infrastructure parts that make up Plow (the index and artifact store) are also flexible enough that you could distribute them via IPFS. [0]: https://github.com/rlay-project https://github.com/rlay-project