Challenge: RDF and Tabular Data

We began this chapter by motivating RDF as a way to distribute data over the Web—in particular, tabular data. Now that we have all of the detailed mechanisms of RDF (including namespaces and triples) in place, we can revisit tabular data and show how to represent it consistently in RDF.

Challenge 1

Given a table from a relational database, describing products, suppliers, and stocking information about the products (see Table 3.12), produce an RDF graph that reflects the content of Table 3.12 in such a way that the information intent is preserved but the data are now amenable for RDF operations like merging and RDF query.

Table 3.12

Sample Tabular Data for Triples

Product
ID Model Number Division Product ...

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