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RDF Validation: A Brief Survey

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The last few years have brought a lot of changes in the RDF validation and integrity constraints in the Semantic Web environment, offering more and more options. This paper analyses the current state of knowledge on RDF validation and proposes requirementsL for RDF validation languages. It overviews and compares the previous approaches and development directions in RDF validation. It also points at the pros and cons of particular implementation scenarios.

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    We test it in hdparm -t.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/n-triples/#canonical-ntriples.

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We thank David Wood, co-chair of the RDF Working Group, for comments that greatly improved the paper.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Stanisław Kozielski

  2. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Dariusz Mrozek

  3. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Paweł Kasprowski

  4. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Bożena Małysiak-Mrozek

  5. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Daniel Kostrzewa

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Tomaszuk, D. (2017). RDF Validation: A Brief Survey. In: Kozielski, S., Mrozek, D., Kasprowski, P., Małysiak-Mrozek, B., Kostrzewa, D. (eds) Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures. Towards Efficient Solutions for Data Analysis and Knowledge Representation. BDAS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 716. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58274-0_28

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