Merging RDF
- RDF statements are made on any URIs
- There may be several graphs using identical URIs
- An application (conceptually) merges these graphs
- nodes with identical URIs are considered identical
- the rest is quite obvious
- Merging is a very powerful feature of RDF
- metadata may be defined by several independent parties ...
- ... and combined by an application
- Development environments merge graphs automatically (e.g. Python can load and merge several files)
- Merging several files into a single file
- is possible
- not necessary
- files can be on remote sites
