RDF & Semantic Web

Discussions center on RDF-compatible databases, semantic web technologies like OWL, SPARQL, and JSON-LD, their practicality, reinvention critiques, and relevance to knowledge graphs and LLMs.

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detaro Feb 17, 2019 View on HN

What's a modern, easy to get started with RDF-compatible database?

emmanueloga_ Oct 8, 2020 View on HN

The problem with the "semantic web" projects is that they are always proposing "pie in the sky" projects that require a big leap of faith to get invested on. I see solidproject.org as an example of this.I've been exploring semantic technologies from the cold and incredible practical angle of "my own needs" :-). The RDF model offers a lot even when keeping data for myself: I can use RDF to infer new things from existing data and visualize relationships. An RD

flanked-evergl Oct 18, 2022 View on HN

Look at wikidata, RDF and semantic web. This is somewhat a well solved problem that should not be solved differently again.

kitsune_ Aug 21, 2024 View on HN

Isn't that the point of RDF / Owl etc.?

zozbot234 Jan 15, 2020 View on HN

RDF is an interoperability mechanism, it has nothing to do with the architecture you use internally for your database. You can have a PostgreSQL database and offer an endpoint for querying it via RDF.

turnsout Oct 7, 2025 View on HN

In an era of LLMs, do you think RDFa still has a place?

LukeEF Jul 3, 2020 View on HN

RDF shouldn't be lumped in with SPARQL

nickpsecurity Jul 31, 2023 View on HN

What do you use RDF models for?

zacharyvoase Jun 17, 2011 View on HN

Not a single mention of RDF throughout. Am I missing something, or is this wheel reinvention?

meh2frdf May 27, 2022 View on HN

Unpopular opinion, but I think RDF and shacl solves a lot of this!