# Is RDF "hard"?

**URL:** <https://forum.solidproject.org/t/is-rdf-hard/5056>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/is-rdf-hard/5056 "2022-01-26T18:15:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeffz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/jeffz/32/600_2.png) [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/is-rdf-hard/5056/9 "2022-01-27T22:43:45Z")

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How I would do it. A first stop for common RDF tasks is [schema.org](https://schema.org/). I go there and I look up “customer” and find a number of predicates. I poke around at to see if schema has enough to cover what I need (it often does for common tasks). If something is missing, I go to the [LOV ontology search engine](https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/) and search for customer. I spend an hour or two poking around looking at vocabularies that cover it. All in all I’ve spent half a day or a day researching ontologies and terms which sharpens my understanding of the domain. After I’ve done this for several projects the time doing that is diminished drastically.

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