Why Knowledge Graphs are inevitable for the future of data management in the automotive industry. A typical German car manufacturer on average assembles ~10 cars per minute. Each of these cars consists of dozens of thousands of mechanical, electronic and software components produced and supplied by a few thousand companies. Each individual component has its own lengthy life cycle starting with the definition of requirements…

I thought I need SHACL, SWRL, ShEx, SPIN, R2RML and more to handle a Semantic RDF Graph — I was proved wrong. Knowledge graphs have become more and more popular due to their unprecedented efficiency in (1) integrating data from many sources with different data schemas, (2) handling dynamic, redundant, incomplete or inconsistent information, (3) their ability to reason, validate and deduce new knowledge from existing facts.