RDF, OWL, SPARQL....

I post these interesting Wikipedia articles, it's always good to learn something new to impress girls in conversations on the train (hahaha just kidding) :

these readings are about the "web metadata"  story (the need to embed relational [a is father of b] statements in web documents, so that an agent can parse them and build a DB of facts).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language


For some "semantic repositories" DBs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_%28framework%29

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/spatialandgraph/overview/index.html on Oracle Spatial and Graph

http://www.systap.com/ Systap Bigdata

http://www.ontotext.com/products/ontotext-graphdb/  Ontotext GraphDB




Also interesting reading:

ever wondered about the difference between a Type 1 and a Type 2 Hypervisor? Here goes the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor