rubyrdf

= rubyrdf

• { http://rubyrdf.rubyforge.org/}[http://rubyrdf.rubyforge.org/]
• { http://github.com/pjstadig/rubyrdf/tree/master/}[http://github.com/pjstadig/rubyrdf/tree/master/]

== DESCRIPTION:

A pure Ruby library for consuming and producing RDF data.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

=== Completed:

• Fully compliant with {RDF}[http://www.w3.org/RDF/] and
  {OWL}[http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/] specifications.
• Pluggable graph implementation with built-in implementations:
  • In-memory graph
  • Sesame2 repository
• Namespaces for easy generation of URIs:
  rdf::type
  => http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
• Conversion of Ruby types to RDF typed literals
  2.to_literal
  => "2"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer

=== In-progress:

• {SPARQL}[http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/].
• Pluggable graph implementation with built-in implementations:
  • Federated graph (for transparently consolidating multiple, distributed graphs)
  • File based graphs (RDF/XML, NTriples, etc.)
• Rule based reasoner for reasoning over any graph implementation (including the consolidated
  graph).

== SYNOPSIS:

FIXME (code sample of usage)

== REQUIREMENTS:

• {ruby1.8}[http://www.ruby-lang.org/]
• {rubygems}[http://www.rubygems.org/]
• {addressable}[http://addressable.rubyforge.org/]
• {activesupport}[http://rubyforge.org/projects/activesupport/]

Optional:

• {utf8proc}[http://utf8proc.rubyforge.org/] (if installed, speeds
  up Unicode normalization)

== INSTALL:

To install the latest stable release:

sudo gem install rubyrdf

To install the latest unstable release:

sudo gem install pjstadig-rubyrdf --source http://gems.github.com

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Paul Stadig

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