The REAL graph model

Just a note that in preparing for the revisions to XDI core that Joseph and I want to finish this month, I was thinking about the acronym we used for the structure of the graph model. In the previous versions of Core, we called it GEAV ("give") because we add one new dimension to the well-known Entity-Attribute-Value model.

Graph

Entity

Attribute

Value

However, given that we are dropping value nodes and going with just literal nodes—and that the "graph" nodes are really graph root nodes—then if we swap out those two letters the acronym becomes:

Root

Entity

Attribute

Literal

REAL. How's that for a simple and memorable acronym for the structure of the graph model?

=Drummond