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Introduction

The aim of the dotNetRDF Project is to create an Open Source .Net Library using the latest versions of the .Net Framework to provide a powerful and easy to use API for working with RDF. Our aim is to provide an effective way for working with reasonable amounts of RDF in .Net.

We provide support for various different backing Stores in the Library as well as an API which allows arbitrary Stores to be plugged into the library. Currently we support the following Stores plus simple SQL based stores with SQL Server/MySQL:

dotNetRDF was started by Rob Vesse in January 2009 during his time as a PhD Student at the University of Southampton and is managed as a project on SourceForge (SourceForge Project Page). Rob Vesse now works as a software engineer at Cray Inc and continues to be the main contributor to the project in his spare time.

The project is also supported by a variety of active community members who provide valuable patches, ports, testing and other input to the project. Many of these people can be found listed in the acknowledgements file included with our downloads.

Help is always appreciated, please see the Contributions page for more detail if you'd like to contribute to this project.

Downloads

Programmers API

You can Download dotNetRDF to just get the compiled library or you can Download dotNetRDF Source to get the full source. Or take a look at the dotNetRDF SVN Repository if you'd like to get the latest source code. These downloads are intended for developers and programmers, links to our Toolkit for general RDF users can be found further down the page.

Requirements

dotNetRDF requires both the Microsoft.Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and the following 3rd party libraries:

The relevant libraries are included in the release packages so you should be able to use the library without needing to obtain these libraries yourself.

Note: The API is also usable with Mono 2.6+ (2.10 recommended), Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7

Toolkit for Users

Our Tools package of standalone tools can be obtained by going to Download dotNetRDF Toolkit for Windows.

This includes things like our Notepad replacement rdfEditor for editing RDF and SPARQL and Store Manager a GUI tool for working with various Triple Stores.

Requirements

The Toolkit requires Windows and the .Net Framework 3.5

Windows 7/Server 2008 and higher will have this pre-installed, users of earlier versions may need to install it from Microsoft's Download site

Note: Most of the toolkit except for rdfEditor will also run on Mono 2.6+ (2.10 recommended) on Windows, Mac and *nix systems

More Information

If you're a developer who wants to use dotNetRDF then you should check out the following pages:

Please take a look at the following for more detail on the Project:

Tags

.Net, API, C#, Code, dotNetRDF, Open Source, Project, RDF, SourceForge, Triplestore

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