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MTSR 2016: Metadata and Semantics Research pp 104–115Cite as

RDF Data in Property Graph Model

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This paper proposes a formalization of the Property Graphs (PG) model, which now does not have a commonly agreed-upon formal definition. The paper shows how to store Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples in the form that can be easily processable in PG databases. We propose methods for mapping from one model to another. This is important because of existing many graph databases, in which we enable to load RDF data. Moreover, we propose a new serialization, called YARS, for RDF that is compatible with PG solutions.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://martin-loetzsch.de/DOTML/.

  2. 2.

    https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/GraphSON-Reader-and-Writer-Library.

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki.

  4. 4.

    http://sparsity-technologies.com/.

  5. 5.

    http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/.

  6. 6.

    Another name for a vertex is a node.

  7. 7.

    Another name for an edge is an arc.

  8. 8.

    We test it in hdparm -t.

  9. 9.

    https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib.

  10. 10.

    If we assume that this serialization has all prefixes are shorten.

  11. 11.

    http://www.zlib.net/.

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The author gratefully acknowledges the members of the Neo4j team. We thank Olaf Hartig for comments that greatly improved the paper.

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    Dominik Tomaszuk

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  1. Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  3. Sapienza University of Rome , Rome, Italy

    Armando Stellato

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A Appendix: YARS Grammar

A Appendix: YARS Grammar

In this appendix we present the grammar of YARS in EBNF [3].

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Tomaszuk, D. (2016). RDF Data in Property Graph Model. In: Garoufallou, E., Subirats Coll, I., Stellato, A., Greenberg, J. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 672. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8_9

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