NAME
RDFStore - This is a set of Perl modules that implement an object-oriented API to manipulate RDF models
SYNOPSIS
use RDFStore;DESCRIPTION
RDFStore is a set of Perl modules to manage Resource Description Framework (RDF) model databases in a easy and straightforward way. The software started as a pure Perl implementation of the Draft Java API (see http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/api.html) from the Stanford University DataBase Group by Sergey Melnik. A set of companion modules RDFStore::Parser::SiRPAC(3) RDFStore::Parser::OpenHealth(3) and Data::MagicTie(3) the suite allow a user to fetch, parse, process, store and query RDF models.
Toolkit package organisation
Modules like RDFStore::Stanford::RDFNode, RDFStore::Stanford::Literal, RDFStore::Stanford::Resource, RDFStore::Stanford::Model and define a set of "O-O interfaces" implemented by concrete counterparts such as RDFStore::RDFNode, RDFStore:::Literal, RDFStore::Resource, RDFStore::Model. The modules defined by RDFStore correspond to the Java org.w3c.rdf.model, org.w3c.rdf.util, org.w3c.rdf.implementation.model, edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i, org.w3c.tools.crypt, edu.stanford.db.rdf.schema, edu.stanford.db.rdf.vocabulary, org.w3c.rdf.vocabulary.rdf_syntax_19990222, org.w3c.rdf.vocabulary.rdf_schema_19990303, org.w3c.rdf.vocabulary.dublin_core_1999070 packages defined by Sergey Melnik; the Perl code has been structured as follow:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perl packages Java classes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Stanford::* org.w3c.rdf.model ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Stanford::Model org.w3c.rdf.model.Model RDFStore::Stanford::Literal org.w3c.rdf.model.Literal RDFStore::Stanford::RDFNode org.w3c.rdf.model.RDFNode RDFStore::Stanford::Resource org.w3c.rdf.model.Resource RDFStore::Stanford::Statement org.w3c.rdf.model.Statement RDFStore::Stanford::NodeFactory org.w3c.rdf.model.NodeFactory RDFStore::Stanford::VirtualModel org.w3c.rdf.model.VirtualModel RDFStore::Stanford::SetModel org.w3c.rdf.model.SetModel
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::* org.w3c.rdf.util,org.w3c.tools.crypt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Stanford::Digest org.w3c.rdf.digest.Digest RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util org.w3c.rdf.digest.DigestUtil RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::AbstractDigest org.w3c.rdf.digest.DigestUtil RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::GenericDigest org.w3c.rdf.digest.DigestUtil RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::MD5 org.w3c.rdf.digest.DigestUtil RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::SHA1 org.w3c.rdf.digest.DigestUtil
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::* edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i org.w3c.rdf.implementation.model edu.stanford.db.rdf.schema ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Model edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i.ModelImpl RDFStore::Literal edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i.LiteralImpl RDFStore::RDFNode edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i.RDFNodeImpl RDFStore::Resource edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i.ResourceImpl RDFStore::Statement edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i.StatementImpl RDFStore::NodeFactory edu.stanford.db.rdf.model.i.NodeFactoryImpl RDFStore::VirtualModel org.w3c.rdf.implementation.model.VirtualModel RDFStore::SetModel org.w3c.rdf.implementation.model.SetModel RDFStore::SchemaModel edu.stanford.db.rdf.schema.RDFSchemaModel
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Stanford::Vocabulary::* edu.stanford.db.rdf.vocabulary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Stanford::Vocabulary::Generator edu.stanford.db.rdf.vocabulary.Generator
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other classes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RDFStore::Vocabulary::RDF org.w3c.rdf.vocabulary.rdf_syntax_19990222.RDF RDFStore::Vocabulary::RDFS org.w3c.rdf.vocabulary.rdf_schema_19990303.RDFS RDFStore::Vocabulary::DC org.w3c.rdf.vocabulary.dublin_core_19990702.DC RDFStore::Vocabulary::DAML edu.stanford.db.rdf.vocabulary.daml_o_20001011.DAML_O
The Perl RDF API implementation is almost aligned with the Java one. In the RDFStore branch the modules code has been extended and modified to use the Data::MagicTie(3) interface and a different indexing model for RDFStore::Model(3). Similarly the RDFStore::Stanford::Vocabulary::Generator(3) now generates valid Perl5 modules containing constants definitions of input RDF Schema.
For the whole API documentation you can temporarly refer to the JavaDoc version at http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/api-doc/
In addition I invite you to look at the samples and utils directory coming with the RDFStore distribution for a fruitful set of examples to play with :-)
BUGS
This module implements most of the classes and packages as its Java counterpart, but some feature have been missied on purposed or just forgotten ;-) This RDFStore version is aligned with the latest changes from current revision: 2001-01-19 of Stanford Java API.
Not supported:
* order/backorder experimental from Sergey MelnikSEE ALSO
RDFStore::Parser::SiRPAC(3), DBMS(3) and XML::Parser(3) XML::Parser::Expat(3)
RDFStore::Stanford::Model(3) RDFStore::NodeFactory(3)
Summary of Recent Discussions about an Application Programming Interface for RDF - http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/rdf/sum_rdf_api/
RDF Model and Syntax Specification - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax
RDF Schema Specification 1.0 - http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-rdf-schema-20000327
Statements/Statings - http://ilrt.org/discovery/2000/11/statements/AUTHOR
Alberto Reggiori <areggiori@webweaving.org>
Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu> is the original author of the Java RDF API - txs Sergey!