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ActiveRDF: object-oriented semantic web programming

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Sebastian Gerke,

Stefan DeckerAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 817 - 824

https://doi.org/10.1145/1242572.1242682

Published: 08 May 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Object-oriented programming is the current mainstream programming paradigm but existing RDF APIs are mostly triple-oriented. Traditional techniques for bridging a similar gap between relational databases and object-oriented programs cannot be applied directly given the different nature of Semantic Web data, for example in the semantics of class membership, inheritance relations, and object conformance to schemas.

We present ActiveRDF, an object-oriented API for managing RDF data that offers full manipulation and querying of RDF data, does not rely on a schema and fully conforms to RDF(S) semantics. ActiveRDF can be used with different RDF data stores: adapters have been implemented to generic SPARQL endpoints, Sesame, Jena, Redland and YARS and new adapters can be added easily. In addition, integration with the popular Ruby on Rails framework enables rapid development of Semantic Web applications.

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Index Terms

ActiveRDF: object-oriented semantic web programming
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Object oriented development
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Object oriented frameworks

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WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web

May 2007

1382 pages

ISBN:9781595936547

DOI:10.1145/1242572

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University of Calgary, Canada
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IBM, USA
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Bell Labs Research, USA
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

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