BadWolf was born as a loosely modeled graph store after RDF. However, triples were expanded to quads to allow simpler temporal reasoning. Most of the web related parts of RDF were never used. Instead time reasoning become the main reason for its existence. This project represents the evolution of the original BadWolf temporal graph store. Most of the original RDF structs have been removed, however BadWolf targets to retain its simplicity and flexibility.

In case you are curious about the name, BadWolf is named after the BadWolf entity as it appeared in Dr. Who series after Rose Tyler looked into the Time Vortex itself. The BadWolf entity scattered events in time as self encode messages, creating a looped ontological paradox. Hence, naming a temporal graph store after the entity seemed appropriate.

You can find more detail information on each of the components of BadWolf below:

• Data Abstractions for Temporal Graph Modeling.
• Storage Abstraction Layer.
• Graph Marshaling/Unmarshaling.
• BadWolf Query Language.