CasualtIS is a tool that uses RDF technologies coupled with SPARQL queries to fact check claims on Iraqi and Syrian wartime death toll data and prevent the spread of misinformation.
CasualtIS uses a number of tools, frameworks and programming languages to achieve results. Stored data is scraped from the web using Java and cleaned using Python before being converted to linked data and turtle files generated by using RMLMapper Java CLI tool. The client tool is built using Laravel PHP Framework and the frontend uses Vue.js for reactive data and Axios.js for consuming RESTful APIs on the backend. Apache Jena Fuseki is used as the choice of open source RDF store and a MySQL database is used to store sample queries. SPARQL is the language used for all queries.
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