Chapter 7Graphing Globally with RDF
While property graphs focus on solving a range of immediate tactical problems, the RDF graph model focuses on the longer-term strategic goals of large-scale data integration, especially public data integration. This has been one of the driving forces behind the semantic web vision.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a data model standardized by the W3C for describing resources on the web. But note that it’s the descriptions that are on the web, not necessarily the resources that are being described. This means that we can use RDF to describe anything, whether it’s online or not. Put simply, we might say anything that can be named. In fact, we can also describe unnamed things too. So, “anything” can ...
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