Databases and Advanced Data Techniques
26. A very good guide to linked data
Introduction Very simply, linked data is stored as triples that consist of a subject, predicate and object. These triples connect read more
March 6th, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques25. Information Retrieval
25.01 Introduction When we talk about data, we’ve talked about it as synonymous with facts. eg Marlon Brando starred in read more
March 4th, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques24. Triplestores and SPARQL
24.01 Introduction The Semantic Web is hard to search efficiently, partly because there is no registry of information. Finding something read more
March 3rd, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques23. Ontologies – RDF Schema and OWL
23.01 Introduction You can’t properly share information without also sharing definitions, semantics and syntax. The way that linked data is read more
March 2nd, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques22. RDF – Remote Description Framework
22.01 Introduction Web technologies are built around the Document Object Model (DOM). Linked data also has a model, called Remote read more
March 2nd, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques21. Linked Data – an introduction
21.01 Introduction We’ve been looking at distributing our data between machines. Originally, that seemed to be about efficiency, and speed, read more
March 2nd, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques20. Transforming XML databases
20.01 Comparing them to relational databases It’s an unfair comparison to compare XML databases against relational databases as they do read more
January 16th, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques19. Semantic databases
19.01 What does a table actually tell us? If we want to share a relational database, we can (for example) read more
January 13th, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques18. Document databases and MongoDB
18.01 Introduction Key-value databases can be seen as being on the opposite end of the spectrum from relational databases. They read more
January 12th, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques17. Key/Value databases and MapReduce
17.01 Key/Value databases If distributed databases are complex, simplify your data structures. With simpler structures can come simpler management and read more
January 11th, 2022 Posted in Databases and Advanced Data Techniques