NTS:: Database structure and "flattened MaRC"

Thinking about how MaRC works, makes me think that subject (record?), property, value is not enough... or maybe I've not caught on to RDF just yet?

Column structure for a simple database (along the lines of XML and a flattened MaRC structure):

(okay, so this is not going to set the world on fire, but I think it's useable)

ROW # (autoincrement) | RECORD | LINE | ORDER | VALUE
1 | 1 | creator:surname | 001 | Smith
2 | 1 | creator:firstname | 001 | James
3 | 1 | title:entire | 001 | MySQL : Exploring database design
4 | 1 | published:date | 001 | 2004
5 | 1 | published:edition | 001 | [1st]
6 | 1 | published:date | 002 | 2006
7 | 1 | published:edition | 002 | 2nd