SemWeb: A .NET Library for RDF and the Semantic Web

This documentation describes version 0.85 of SemWeb.

To get started, you should use the pre-compiled binaries provided in the download package. These are located in the bin directory. You will need to reference SemWeb.dll in all of the examples.

Library Design and Use

Library Overview: A design document explaining the basics of the library.

Hello World: A simple SemWeb application.

Reading RDF: Loading in RDF data from files and "streaming" statements.

Selecting Statements: Simple queries to fetch statements.

Using Databases: Persistent storage in an SQL database.

Selecting with Filters: Getting many answers at once.

Querying: Simple Entailment and SPARQL.

Inferencing: Performing RDFS and general reasoning.

Use Cases

Berlin SPAQRL Benchmark: Running the BSBM and some results. This is also an example of configuring a SPARQL endpoint.

Command-Line Tools

rdfstorage.exe: The command-line program for reading, writing, and loading RDF data.