DESIRE Toolkit Components

2.7 RDF Data Store

Description

The RDF data model presents a flexible, expressive approach for representing structured data for the Web. This has both advantages and drawbacks. A key difference between RDF storage systems and the traditional relational approach is that with generalised RDF stores, it is necessary to anticipate the need to manage data drawing on metadata vocabularies that were unknown at the time the database was initialised.

This tool provides a generalised data storage engine for RDF and defines an API which may be used to access it. It can be used by any application which needs to store or retrieve metadata in RDF format.