The semantic web is about machine-processable metadata. As you accumulate this information, where do you plan on putting it, and how do you plan on accessing it? Check out this open source solution.
by Brian Sletten
August 30, 2007
f you've been following semantic web technologies, then by now you're no doubt aware of semantic web data languages like the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). When you're talking about storing semantic web data, usually you're talking about RDF triples, which are facts about URI-addressable resources.
Why RDF triple stores? To efficiently store and query RDF, you are most likely not going to want to use relational databases directly. It isn't that there is something inherently wrong with relational databases; it's just that the more general RDF model doesn't fit efficiently within a table structure, and the web moves faster than your schemas can keep up.
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f you've been following semantic web technologies, then by now you're no doubt aware of semantic web data languages like the 
