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 provides the necessary background information about the Semantic Web, the RDF graph data model, RDF Schema, SPARQL, and OWL within (and outside) the context of relational database management and NoSQL systems. The reader will learn about the prevailing RDF triples solutions for both relational and non-relational databases. Includes guidelines and solutions for storing RDF data, processing SPARQL queries, and evaluating which approaches and systems to use when developing Semantic Web applications – both commercial and open-source systems are described.
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Keywords: Query processing, Materialization, Reasoning, Triple store, Query federation
Author: Cure, Olivier
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Date created: 2014-11-26 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P10H
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: professional
Interactivity type: expositive
- Articulates differences between the RDF abstract data model and the XML and relational models.
- Grasps essential differences between schemas for syntactic validation (e.g., XML) and for inferencing (RDF Schema).
- Knows that Web Ontology Language (OWL) is available in multiple "flavors" that are variously optimized for expressivity, performant reasoning, or for applications involving databases or business rules
- Knows the SPARQL 1.1 Update language for updating, creating, and removing RDF graphs in a Graph Store
- Understands RDF serializations as interchangeable encodings of a given set of triples (RDF graph).
- Understands that a SPARQL query matches an RDF graph against a pattern of triples with fixed and variable values.