I “Get” the Semantic Web

February 15, 2006 by slholmes
Filed under: General 
Some times it just takes a while for me to get something. A while back, I’d installed Sesame which is a triple store. After I was done installing, I tested Sesame out by uploading an RDF file and ran some queries. Using the MySQL administrator, I went in and examined the data - everything was working. I had a database and a bunch of RDF stored in a table. Later, that morning, I uploaded another file. Then I got to thinking. How do I tell the difference between the two sets of RDF I’d uploaded that day - as they were going to the same database.

And I thought “oh. that’s right. It’s not going to matter because all the classes and properties are different”.

And I didn’t think anything more about it until today. This was a couple of days after reading an interview with Tim Berners-Lee about the semantic web. Then I watched a video. Then all at once, it dawned on me. “Dude!”, I thought, “it’s all like that!” all of the RDF can be merged no problem. It all fits together. It’s all just a giant, distributed list of tripples: subjects, predicates and object as far as the mind can see.

here’s a test of the w.bloggar 4.0.

How do we tell Squarespace.com and w.bloggar to maintain the white space in a post?

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