dotNetRDF is a powerful and flexible API for working with RDF and SPARQL in .NET environments.

To get started with using dotNetRDF you may want to check out the following resources:

• User Guide - Series of articles detailing how to use various features of the library
• Developer Guide - Some advanced documentation

dotNetRDF is licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE.txt file in this repository

dotNetRDF produces two main products:

• A Programmers API for working with RDF and SPARQL in code using .Net
• A Toolkit which provides an assortment of GUI and command line tools for working with RDF and SPARQL on Windows platforms

The Programmers API requires .Net 4.0 or higher (builds are provided for a variety of different framework versions and profiles).

The Toolkit is now managed in a separate repository. You can find more information and download links for the Toolkit at that location.

If you are a developer who uses NuGet you can also obtain dotNetRDF via NuGet, simply search for dotNetRDF in the NuGet Package Gallery to see the available packages.

dotNetRDF is developed by the following people:

• Rob Vesse
• Ron Michael Zettlemoyer
• Khalil Ahmed
• Graham Moore
• Tomasz Pluskiewicz

dotNetRDF also benefits from many community contributors who contribute in the form of bug reports, patches, suggestions and other feedback, please see the Acknowledgements file for a full list.

Bugs and feature requests are tracked on our Issues list on GitHub