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Practical RDF Shelley Powers
Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Since RDF resources are typically large and written in technical and long terms, the eye-parsing scenario is not practical, and certainly hampers the whole utility of SPARQL. The W3C has recently approved the creation of the Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group. One practical upside is that the label for particular algorithms can be stored in the RDF. The resource can have a dc:title property with value “SHA1”. So, while we wait for the semantic web to evolve, what is RDF good for today? The reason why I have to ontologically commit to a particular RDF store, is that the access patterns to stores differ drastically. In fact, I often advise people to search for Linked Data rather than Semantic Web as the usefulness of the results in a practical context is vast.