I see Base64 is an XSD option too, but I’m most interested in “true” binary, as opposed to binary-as-text options, and whether any exist!
Nick On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 8:13 am, Nicholas Car <[[email protected]](mailto:On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 8:13 am, Nicholas Car <<a href=)> wrote: > Dear Jena users, > > How can I store binary literals in RDF and in Jena/Fuseki? > > There is xsd:hexBinary for arbitrary binary data but is there a better/more > efficient/another way to store binary literals in Jena? > > The reason I ask is that a future version of GeoSPARQL might want to include > WKB - Well-Known Binary - as a geometry format option. We would hope this can > be efficiently accessed by a spatial index so we want to know how to handle > perhaps a custom data type, perhaps geo:wkbLiteral, and how best to store > this in Jena, perhaps not as hex text. > > Thanks, Nick
