Preface

Oracle AI Database Graph Developer's Guide for RDF Graph provides usage and reference information about Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition support for semantic technologies, including storage, inference, and query capabilities for data and ontologies based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS), and Web Ontology Language (OWL). The RDF Graph feature is licensed with the Oracle Spatial and Graph option to Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition, and it requires the Oracle Partitioning option to Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition.

Note:

You must perform certain actions and meet prerequisites before you can use any types, synonyms, or PL/SQL packages related to RDF Graph support. These actions and prerequisites are explained in Enabling RDF Semantic Graph Support.

• Audience
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

This guide is intended for those who need to use semantic technology to store, manage, and query semantic data in the database.

You should be familiar with at least the main concepts and techniques for the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).

Related Documents

For an excellent explanation of RDF concepts, see the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) RDF Primer at http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/.

For information about OWL, see the OWL Web Ontology Language Reference at http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

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