The ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: Managing Voluminous RDF Description Bases

Metadata are widely used in order to fully exploit information resources available on corporate intranets or the Internet. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) aims at facilitating the creation and exchange of metadata as any other Web data. The growing number of available information resources and the proliferation of description services in various user communities, lead nowadays to large volumes of RDF metadata. Managing such RDF resource descriptions and schemas with existing low-level APIs and le-based implementations does not ensure fast deployment and easy maintenance of real-scale RDF applications. In this paper, we advocate the use of database technology to support declarative access, as well as, logical and physical independence for voluminous RDF description bases. We present RDFSuite, a suite of tools for RDF validation, storage and querying. Speci cally, we introduce a formal data model for RDF description bases created using multiple schemas. Next, we present the des...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Karvounarakis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Karsten Tolle
• Keywords: Internet Technology, RDF Description Bases, Rdf Descriptions, Resource Descriptions, SEMWEB 2001