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From Relational to Really Relational: The RDB2RDF Working Group

While a lot of databases have been created listing information in a table format, the web isn't set up in a tabular style. Neither is plenty of data in a variety of formats that the web uses. However, many databases are still using tables, because many web developers feel that tables handle plenty of data better than any other structure.

Others feel that the data tables known as RDB should be converted to RDF, a format used to gather an even wider array of metadata across the worldwide web. The ability to convert to RDF will be extremely beneficial as technology advances to Artificial Intelligence AI and beyond.

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Graph Therapy: The Year of the Graph Newsletter, June/May 2020

Parts of the world are still in lockdown, while others are returning to some semblance of normalcy. Either way, while the last few months have given some things pause, they have boosted others. It seems like developments in the world of Graphs are among those that have been boosted. 

An abundance of educational material on all things graph has been prepared and delivered online, and is now freely accessible, with more on the way. 

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RDF Storage: Apache Jena TDB

Overview

RDF Storage is a database used to store and query RDF data. RDF stands for Resource Description Framework, which is a standard model for describing and interchanging data on the web.

RDF storage contains collections of RDF statements, which are three-part statements known as triples. Each triple has a resource (subject), property (predicate), and property value (object).

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7 Great 2018 Advancements in Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

While the term “Knowledge Graph” is relatively new (Google 2012), the concept of “representing knowledge as a set of relations between entities — forming a “graph” — has been around for much longer.

2019 marks, for example, the 20th anniversary of the publication of arguably the first open standard for representing “Knowledge Graphs” designed with web distribution and scale in mind (The W3C RDF standard).