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Datastory’s Glossary

Key concepts curated by the Datastory team.

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Controlled vocabulary

Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for retrieval. They ...

Identifier

The name of an object or concept in a database. An identifier may be the ...

Linked open data

Linked open data

Linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it ...

Ontology (information science)

In computer science and information science, an ontology is a way of keeping ...

RDF

RDF, The Resource Description Framework, is a family of standards that are used ...

Semantic web

The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by ...

SKOS

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a W3C recommendation designed for ...

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms or ...

Triplestore

A triplestore or RDF store is a purpose-built database for the storage and ...

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