Redland, Raptor and Rasqal - Open Source RDF by Dave Beckett

Table of contents

• Redland, Raptor and Rasqal - Open Source RDF in C, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, Java and C#
• Overview
• Open Source Communities
• Main Goal: Make RDF easy for Open Source
• Other goals
• Redland Application Framework
• Semantic Web Stack
• Redland Scope in Semantic Web Stack
• Redland family of libraries
• Implementation language choices
• Preserving sanity while using a C API
• Object based C in Redland
• The usual C problems
• Managing the problems
• Redland language bindings
• Python Example - raw API
• Python Example - native API
• C Example - 10 LoC
• Delivering to the open source community
• Packaging
• Portability - systems and distributions
• Redland Milestones
• Applications and Users
• Redland Features
• Redland Features - Contexts
• Redland Features - No memory leaks
• Redland Features - Efficient Streaming
• Thanks