“What has been the sole territory of relational database technologies may soon be displaced by the use of RDF and the triple store. Moreover, because RDF is the common data model utilized by triple stores, it is possible to integrate data sets across different triple stores – across different RDF data providers. This integration is conveniently afforded by the URI and RDF as web standards and is a function foreign to the relational database domain. With the Web of Data, no longer is information isolated in individual inaccessible data silos, but instead is exposed in an open and interconnected environment – the web environment.”