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NFJS2025

Modern Software : Bridging the Graph Gap

Our industry never stops changing, but sometimes those changes are trivia and fluffy. Sometimes they are fundamental and enduring. This series is going to highlight some of the most important trends happening in the hardware, software, data and architecture spaces.

Graphs are increasingly part of our lives in the form of datastores, Linked Data, knowledge graphs and sophisticated analytics. The majority of the extant graph databases support what are called “Property Graphs” while the W3C Linked Data standards support a slightly different view. Each has its strengths, but the we may finally be able to put this argument to rest and support both approaches where they make sense. Come here how new standards may help finally bridge this gap.

While it is still early days, we are seeing some exciting movement in the unification of these worlds through the W3C Community Group process (a common precursor to WG standards authority).

We will cover the proposals and implementations covering:

  • Several use cases describing the issues and how they will be addressed
  • The extensions to the RDF data model to support property graph features
  • The extensions to the RDF serialization formats (Turtle, N-Triples, etc.)
  • The extensions of the SPARQL Query Language (SPARQL*)

Brian Sletten

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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