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Kowari Documentation
Data in electronic form is flourishing. It is, in fact, growing at a rate that makes it hard to manage. Organizations often have so much information in electronic form that it can be hard to find, access, share and reuse. Kowari is an important part of a solution to this problem.
Metadata is information about data. For example, metadata for a word-processing document or an electronic mail message might include the author, the recipients, the subject, keywords, concepts addressed, people named, dates or places mentioned. Kowari stores this metadata and creates relationships between it.
KowariTM implements many of the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web concepts (http://www.w3.org/RDF/, http://www.w3c.org/2001/sw). Kowari databases hold metadata in the form of short subject-predicate-object statements, much like the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard. In fact, metadata may be imported into TKS in RDF form.
Using iTQLTM (Interactive Tucana Query LanguageTM) commands, you can query Kowari databases and receive results that match the query. iTQL is similar to the Structured Query Language (SQL) used to query relational databases, with some significant differences due to the way data is stored in Kowari. Like relational databases, Kowari can be used as an underlying data repository for software applications.
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