Fundamentals of Resource Description Framework
Ontologies and Data Models- Are They the Same?
This blog post from "Voyages of the Semantic Enterprise" discusses issues related to the title question, including a brief history of data modelling and how [...]
Learning from the Masters: Understanding Ontologies found on the Web (Part 2)
The purpose of this presentation was to help conference attendees gain sufficient experience of working with OWL and tools (e.g., the Swoop ontology editor/browser) to [...]
FOAF-a-Matic
FOAF-a-matic is a simple JavaScript application that allows you to create a FOAF (Friend-of-A-Friend) description of yourself. FOAF is a way to describe yourself using [...]
RDF Database Systems: Triples Storage and SPARQL Query Processing
Available in print or EBook, this resource professes to "distill everything you need to know to effectively use or design an RDF database". This book [...]
Introduction to Linked Data: Background Technologies and Standards, Motivating Application Scenario
This presentation introduces the main principles of Linked Data, including the underlying technologies and background standards. It provides basic knowledge for how data can be [...]
From Linked Data to Networked Knowledge
This lecture briefly covers the history of human communication up to the present day and then seeks to answer the question, "How best can we [...]
Learning from the Masters: Understanding Ontologies found on the Web (Part 1)
The purpose of this presentation was to help conference attendees gain sufficient experience of working with OWL and tools (e.g., the Swoop ontology editor/browser) to [...]
RDF and Logic: Reasoning and Extension
This paper explores embedding the various kinds of RDF entailment in F-Logic. It shows that the embedding of simple, RDF, and RDFS entailment, as well [...]
Real-time RDF Extraction from Unstructured Data Streams
Most of the Web of Data is limited to a large compendium of encyclopedic knowledge describing entities. The timely and massive extraction of RDF facts [...]
SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes
There are different possible ways of defining a basic graph pattern matching extension for an entailment relation. This document specifies one such way for a [...]