RDF Graph Model
- the Semantic Web is a large distributed object graph
- the basic building block is a statement, e.g.
- a
statement
associates a
subject with an
object
using a
predicate, i.e.
- the subject and predicate are
resources
- identified by a URI reference,
e.g.
- http://www.daml.org/researchers-ont#Person
- mailto:[email protected]
- urn:uuid:f139476e-6830-11d6-80ad-961fabc5c655
- the object may be a resource or a literal (string) value, e.g.
- a graph
(or
model)
contains statements with
nodes referring to the same URI implicitly merged, e.g.