RDFSharp is a lightweight library designed to ease the creation of .NET applications based on the RDF model, representing a straightforward didactic solution for start playing with RDF and Semantic Web concepts. With RDFSharp it is possible to quickly draft solutions capable of modeling, storing and querying RDF.

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RDFSharp, which is currently under heavy development, has a modular architecture made up of four layers:

• MODEL
  • Create and manage RDF models (namespaces, datatypes, resources, literals, triples, graphs, ...);
  • Exchange them using standard RDF formats (N-Triples, Turtle, RDF/XML, TriX);

• STORE
  • Create and manage RDF stores backing on memory or on different SQL engines (SQLite, SQLServer);
  • Create and manage RDF federations as virtual stores giving integrated query access to multiple stores;

• QUERY (under development)
  • Create and execute SPARQL queries on graphs, stores and federations to fluently retrieve RDF data;

• SEMANTICS (not started)
  • Create and execute RDF reasonings to exploit semantic relations between RDF data;

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You are welcome to contact me for any ideas, suggestions, collaborations and bugfixes!

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