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Get Started with RDF

Explore the fundamentals of RDF as a data model for describing resources using URIs. Understand how RDF enables global data integration, simplifies combining datasets through common naming, and supports semantic web goals. Learn about RDF’s graph structure, serialization formats, and schema languages that enrich data and enable powerful queries and inferences.

What is RDF?

RDF stands for Resource Description Framework, a data model standardized by the W3CWorld Wide Web Consortium: An international body responsible for creating standards for the World Wide Web. for describing resources on the web. While property graphs focus on solving a range of immediate tactical problems, RDF focuses on the longer-term strategic goals of large-scale data integration, especially public data integration. This has been one of the driving forces behind the Semantic Web vision.

An RDF graph
An RDF graph

Property graphs

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