RDFSharp is a lightweight C# framework designed to ease the creation of .NET applications based on the RDF model, representing a straightforward didactic solution for start playing with RDF, SPARQL and Semantic Web concepts.
With RDFSharp it is possible to realize .NET applications capable of modeling, storing and querying RDF data.
RDFSharp has a modular API made up of three layers:
- RDFSharp.Model
- Create and manage RDF models (resources, literals, triples, graphs, namespaces, ...)
- Exchange them using standard RDF formats (N-Triples, TriX, Turtle, RDF/Xml)
- RDFSharp.Store
- Create and manage RDF stores backing data on memory or SQL Server (see extensions)
- Exchange them using standard RDF formats (N-Quads, TriX)
- Create and manage RDF federations giving integrated query access to multiple stores
- RDFSharp.Query
- Create and execute SPARQL queries on graphs, stores, federations and SPARQL endpoints
Did you know that...
- RDFSharp has an extension for OWL-DL ontology modeling, validation and reasoning!
- RDFSharp has an extension for SQL storage of RDF data!