RdfResources

(Thanks to Steven Perry for providing the original list of resources on this page.)

Reading

W3C?

The W3C? RDF resources can be found at http://www.w3.org/RDF/ The RDF primer is recommended reading http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/

Libraries

Jena

A Java framework for working with RDF that includes serialization/deserialization of N3, N-Triple, RDF/XML, RDF/XML-ABBREV, and others, both memory and DB-backed triple stores, a reasoner API, support for reification, typed literals, and support for a variety of query languages including RDQL and SPARQL. Jena is an open source project that is used as a component of many other semantic web projects. It is developed by HP Labs. http://jena.sourceforge.net

Redland

A C based RDF framework with bindings for many different languages including Perl, Java, C#, Ruby, and others. It also includes serialization/deserialization from a variety of formats, memory and DB-backed triple stores, support for SPARQL and Rasqal query languages, etc. Redland is an open source project that is used as a component of many other semantic web projects. It is developed by Dave Beckett at the University of Bristol. http://librdf.org

Jastor

A Java code generator that emits Java Beans from OWL ontologies. Think of it as Castor for OWL. It is designed to work with Jena and is developed by Ben Szekely (who also worked on the LSID framework) and Joe Betz at IBM. http://jastor.sourceforge.net/

Applications

W3C? RDF Validator:

Given an RDF/XML document, this web application validates it and displays it as triples, RDF/XML, or as a graph in a variety of formats including PNG, SVG, and isaViz. http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/

Protégé Ontology Editor

We mostly use text editors for developing ontologies because we've occasionally found Protege to be unstable with large complicated OWL models. However, many people like Protege (a Java desktop application) which was developed by Standford's Medical Informatics group. http://protege.stanford.edu

Comment from StevenPerry? "There are also a variety of triple store implementations as well as other frameworks like Kowari. However, we can't recommend them because we either haven't used them or didn't like them."

---