Knowledge Graphs are a hot topic, no wonder considering how powerful they can be. However, learning how to create, develop, and use them can be a bit of a minefield. In this post we provide a high-level overview and recommend some learning resources.
It’s tricky to find out how to set up RDFLib Graph to use a RDBS backend, but it can be done using SQLAlchemy and RDFLib-SQLAlchemy. This means it’ll support all the engines SQLAlchemy does, including MySQL and Postgres. I’ll highlight two gotchas to look out for when using RDFLib-SQLAlchemy and walk you through getting setup using a wrapper class to RDFLIB Graph.
Google makes extensive use of Semantic Web technologies, although they prefer the term Knowledge Graph. In this post I’ll show you how to add structured data to a Flask Blog app, with JSON-LD and Jinja2 templates to help Google understand your content, which in turn should improve SEO.
Facebook use the Semantic Web. They have an ontology called “Open Graph” that links your webpage into their social graph. This means when someone shares your webpage on Facebook, it’ll look how you’ve specified. In this post I’ll show you how to include this in a Flask blog application with a Jinja2 template.