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Semantic technologies permit powerful connections across #linkedData resources on the web. Until recently, developers had to learn the #RDF language to discover and use these resources.

Leveraging the new Model Context Protocol and LLM-powered natural-language interfaces, @Emekaokoye has created the RDF Explorer, an #MCP service that lets any developer surf the semantic web without having to learn its specialized language.

knowledgegraphinsights.com/eme

Hey @doriantaylor, I have some more dumb semantic web questions.

1. If I *don't* want to use a full existing ontology, because I intentionally want to have a simpler model during early phases of a project, is there a .. I guess a "sanctioned way" to enhance my ontology as time goes on without losing fidelity?

I know OWL's SameAs can identify individual resources as the same as some other resource, but this would kind of be that, only at the ontological level, maybe.

We’re thrilled to announce pyjelly 0.4.0, the newest release of our #Python library for efficient #RDF knowledge graph serialization, using the Jelly protocol.

What pyjelly gives you:

🐍 Python implementation of the Jelly protocol, compatible with Jena and RDF4J.
⚡️ Support for Jelly in #rdflib.
✅ An easy-to-use API for handling #KG serialization.

Our work on pyjelly is financed from the #EUFunds #EuropeanFunds.

Project value: 149 941,44 PLN
Contribution from European Funds: 149 941,44 PLN

Tomorrow, we will dive deeper into ontologies with OWL, the Web Ontology Language. However, I'm doing OWL-lectures now for almost 20 years - and OWL as well as the lecture haven't changed much. So, I'm afraid I'm going to surprise/dissapoint the students tomorrow, when I will switch off the presentation and start improvising a random OWL ontology with them on the blackboard ;-)

@fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @sourisnumerique @enorouzi

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#SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) est un langage conçu pour interroger et manipuler des données au format #RDF (Resource Description Framework), un modèle utilisé pour représenter des données sous forme de graphe, élément clé du Web sémantique. Toutes les données de Wikidata peuvent ainsi être décrites comme un triplet : sujet – prédicat – objet.
Cet atelier propose une initiation à SPARQL et au Wikidata Query Service.
#LibreABC2025

Thomas Kerboul, de la Bibliothèque de Genève, animera un atelier lors de la journée #LibreABC2025 sur les jeux de données dans #Wikidata.
#SPARQL #RDF

Description:
Wikidata est une base de connaissances libre et ouverte offrant un accès à des données structurées. Au-delà de la consultation élément par élément, Wikidata permet de visualiser une grande quantité de données sous forme de tableaux, de cartes ou encore de chronologies et de créer ses propres jeux de données grâce au langage SPARQL.

OK @doriantaylor (or anybody), one more beginner question. When does a reasoner actually do its work? So, I've got a pile of data in whatever form, and I formulate a query. Then .... what? The reasoner looks at the datatypes in the query and says e.g. "if you're asking for publications that also means books or articles?" Or does it create dummy nodes for the existing data, so there's a publication node for every book and every article?
#rdf #SemanticWeb