What Oracle Brings to Semantic Technologies?

Modern organizations are increasingly turning to knowledge management as a differentiating asset to generate greater productivity, create new value and increase competitiveness. Oracle is working with leading-edge customers and partners to ensure that Oracle Database 11g can serve as a foundation for a new generation of enterprise-class semantically-enabled business applications. The experiences in the following domains have been key in helping to advance this technology.

• Web Metadata: Providing information about Web resources and systems that use them (content rating, capabilities, privacy)
• Life Sciences Applications: Query knowledge bases that can vary from simple taxonomies to full fledged ontologies
• Social Network Applications: Friend of a Friend applications, social network tracking and navigation common in security and intelligence applications
• Semantic Information Integration: Define shared, central business information model (ontology) to support information sharing across applications
• Semantic Web: Enable automated processing of Web information by software agents
• Portals and e-Marketplace Applications: Ability to query large amounts of metadata

RDF Data Model

Oracle Spatial 10g Release 2 introduced the industry's first open, scalable, secure and reliable data management platform for RDF-based applications. New object types manage RDF data in Oracle. Based on a graph data model, RDF triples are persisted, indexed and queried, similar to other object-relational data types. Today's Oracle 11g RDF database ensures that application developers benefit from the scalability of the Oracle database to deploy scalable semantic-based enterprise applications.

XML Data Management & Tools

XML serves as a syntactic foundation layer for semantic technologies. Semantic technologies like RDF and OWL are built upon XML to guarantee a base level of interoperability.