Annotated rdf

TitleAnnotated rdf
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsUdrea O, Recupero D, V.S. Subrahmanian
JournalThe Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Volume4011
Pagination487 - 501
Date Published2006///
Abstract

There are numerous extensions of RDF that support temporal reasoning, reasoning about pedigree, reasoning about uncertainty, and so on. In this paper, we present Annotated RDF (or aRDF for short) in which RDF triples are annotated by members of a partially ordered set (with bottom element) that can be selected in any way desired by the user. We present a formal declarative semantics (model theory) for annotated RDF and develop algorithms to check consistency of aRDF theories and to answer queries to aRDF theories. We show that annotated RDF captures versions of all the forms of reasoning mentioned above within a single unified framework. We develop a prototype aRDF implementation and show that our algorithms work very fast indeed – in fact, in just a matter of seconds for theories with over 100,000 nodes.

DOI10.1007/11762256_36