Browsing Linked Data
By definition, graphs connect data. (IDs, labels, and other attributes will either be implicit or explicit.) But since RDF graphs use URIs for node names, they can typically be dereferenced, that is they may return a document when the link is followed. What’s more, the document they return is a graph—a graph of semantically linked data.
One could say that a web page usually returns a graph via its DOM model, but this is just a structure for HTML documents—there is no real semantics beyond the operational parse tree. One could also say that any web page may link to additional web pages through HTML links and these links actually form a graph.
And while this may be true, HTML links are anonymous—there are no names, no meaning. ...
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