Chapter 21
Triple Store Use Cases
In This Chapter
Handling unstructured information
Reconstructing processes
Applying inductive logic
Establishing social relationships
Semantics, triples, and graphs offer a whole new world that’s unfamiliar to many people with a database background. This makes it very exciting!
You first need to get hold of the data needed to build your graph, which you can find at from websites that publish Linked Open Data (LOD), or you can extract them from your own content. Two examples of LOD websites are dbpedia (http://dbpedia.org), which provides a semantically modeled extra of Wikipedia data, and geonames (http://geonames.org), which provides a catalogue of places, countries, and geospatial coordinates.
You may then need to track where you found this information, how you acquired it, and the changes made to the information over time. This provenance information can be key in legal and defense industries.
Perhaps you need to merge all the new triples you have added from your own organizations' data with reference information from other systems and sources. ...
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