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If you are asking if RDF provides a silver bullet to integrate data sources, the answer is no, everything requires effort. But I think the integration story is
by emmanueloga_ 6y ago
If you are asking if RDF provides a silver bullet to integrate data sources, the answer is no, everything requires effort.
But I think the integration story is way better than when integrating other data models, say, relational databases.
The other aspect is that URLs being the ids for statements, I can peek at the implementation of a 3rd party data model and use that _in advance_, instead of integrating later.
For instance, when I write my blog I can use the URLs of existing wikidata entities to model my own entities. If wikipedia entities used a relational model, the IDs of these entities would be opaque and could change at any time, so I wouldn't be able to do that.
- Vinnl 6y agoThose are very good points, thanks for the clarification.