BTW: There is an article i have found related to this. Maybe this helps you
too: http://datablend.be/?p=411



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2011/7/6 Mattias Persson <[email protected]>

> I'd say that you can often use nodes and relationships without URIs,
> although maybe some concept of IDs other than the internal ids of nodes and
> relationships. Data stored in neo4j can often be seen as triples-like
> statements:
>
>   (personA)--[KNOWS]-->(personB)
>
> but that's just the simplest form... f.ex:
>
>   (personA)--[KNOWS]-->(personB)--[MARRIED_TO]-->(personC)
>                                           |
>                                    [LIVES_IN]
>                                           |
>                                          v
>                                      (Sweden)
>
> and you can traverse that as one graph, whereas each node-relationship-node
> could in this setting be viewed as one triple in RDF terms. I think RDF is
> needlessly limiting graph capabilities to triples, and neo4j (and fellow
> property graphs) does not. Also check out the Cypher query language,
> http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/1.4.M06/cypher-query-lang.html
>
> 2011/7/3 noppanit <[email protected]>
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm very interested in RDF and SPARQL, but I'm a total newbie. However,
> > since neo4j can do the same thing without having to use RDF or SPARQL to
> > traverse the graph. Would it be better if I use RDF to store the graph
> with
> > URIs or I can just ignore that and use pure nodes and relationships to
> > store
> > the data, but to store in triples-like structure? And what does neo4j
> guys
> > think about RDF and the direction of neo4j with semantic web, because I
> > think neo4j is the perfect tool for semantic web.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Toy.
> >
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