VoID

For other uses, see Void (disambiguation).

The Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets (VoID) is a vocabulary for providing concise summaries (metadata) of Resource Description Framework (RDF) datasets—meaningful collections of semantic triples—using the syntax of RDF Schema. It can be used for general metadata (such as information about the license of the dataset), access metadata (information about how to access the dataset), structural metadata (information about how the dataset is structured), and linking metadata (information about links between datasets).^[1]

A linked dataset is a collection of data, published and maintained by a single provider, available as RDF on the Web, where at least some of the resources in the dataset are identified by dereferencable Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). VoID is used to provide metadata on RDF datasets to facilitate query processing on a graph of interlinked datasets in the Semantic Web.^[2]

See also

• Graph database
• Knowledge graph
• Concept map
• Triplestore
• SPARQL
• DBpedia

References

1. "Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary". www.w3.org. W3C. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
2. Akar, Ziya; Halaç, Tayfun Gökmen; Dikenelli, Oguz; Ekinci, Erdem Eser. "Querying the Web of Interlinked Datasets using VOID Descriptions". CiteSeer. Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2012). Retrieved 22 September 2017.

External links

• Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary