Triple the Fun: Creating an RDF Vocabulary for Your Organization

An RDF graph creates a web of concepts. It makes assertions about logical relationships between entities. RDF was meant to fit into a dynamic knowledge representation system rather than a static database structure. Once you have information in RDF, it can be linked with graphs made elsewhere, and software can use this to make inferences. If you define how your own items are related in terms of higher-level concepts, your data can fit into a much larger web of concepts. This is the basis of the Semantic Web.

Every organization has relationships between information that is held in a data store such as a database or flat file (or human memory!). If your data is in a relational ...

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