Summary
Source:paper.md
The Resource Description Framework, or RDF [@RDF; @W3C_RDF] is a widely used data representation model that forms the cornerstone of the Semantic Web. RDF represents data as a graph rather than the familiar data table or rectangle of relational databases. The rdflib
package provides a friendly and concise user interface for performing common tasks on RDF data, such as reading, writing and converting between the various serializations of RDF data, including rdfxml
, turtle
, nquads
, ntriples
, and json-ld
; creating new rdf
graphs, and performing graph queries using SPARQL [@SPARQL; @W3C_SPARQL]. This package wraps the low level redland
R package [@redland] which provides direct bindings to the redland C library. Additionally, the package supports the newer and more developer friendly JSON-LD format through the jsonld
package [@jsonld; @W3C_jsonld].