Resource Description Framework

Mulgara is a scalable RDF database written entirely in Java.

For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data.

Imagine Google was using the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce

Linked data offers a set of best practices for publishing, sharing and linking data and information on the web. It is based on use of http URIs and semantic web standards such as RDF. For some web developers the need to understand the RDF data model and associated serializations and query language (SPARQL) has proved a barrier to adoption of linked data.

... providing guidance for people who want to publish their data as linked data. One of the things that we need to provide guidance about is how to publish linked data that changes over time.

Nodes are stored and efficiently reused when required. An RDF triple in the semantic store has

In addition to the classic “Web of documents” W3C is helping to build a technology stack to support a “Web of data,” the sort of data you find in databases. The ultimate goal of the Web of data is to enable computers to do more useful work and to develop systems that can support trusted interactions over the network. The term “Semantic Web” refers to W3C’s vision of the Web of linked data.

W3C develops technical specifications and guidelines through a process designed to maximize consensus about the content of a technical report, to ensure high technical and editorial quality, and to earn endorsement by W3C and the broader community.

XSPARQL is a query language combining XQuery and SPARQL for transformations between RDF and XML. XSPARQL subsumes XQuery and most of SPARQL (excluding ASK and DESCRIBE). This document defines the XSPARQL language.