Wrapping Up
In this chapter, we briefly reviewed the RDF data model, which underlies the semantic web and its linked data offspring—W3C standardized approaches to connecting and querying data from across the web. We saw that RDF’s common naming system and primitive data model simplify public data sharing, which more readily leads to global semantics and data integration at web scale. These factors together with the support for formal reasoning provide a useful basis for building knowledge graphs.
We then set up a new RDFGraph project for exploring RDF graphs.
Next, we used RDF.ex to define an RDF vocabulary for the Schema.org book schema. Using this vocabulary, we saw how to build a set of RDF descriptions for the book graph and how to serialize ...
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