Slides for the SemDev workshop at ISWC2014

1. Towards a
Commons RDF
Java library
http://commons-rdf.github.io
Sergio Fernández, Andy Seaborne and Peter Ansell

2. Sergio Fernández
@wikier
http://linkedin.com/in/sergiofernandez
http://www.wikier.org
Who Am I
Senior Researcher at Salzburg Research
Partner Technology Manager at Redlink GmbH
Committer at the Apache Software Foundation

3. Commons RDF, why?
● Historical incompatibility in Java
● Not providing yet-another-wrapper
● But providing commons interfaces
● It arrives in the right time:
○ Apache Jena 3.0
○ OpenRDF Sesame 4.0
● But it will live or die on its own merits!

4. Features
● A type-safe, non-general API that covers RDF 1.1.
● Initial focused on a subset of the core RDF 1.1 concepts
○ IRI, Blank Node, Literal, Triple, and Graph
● In a future other aspects may be also included
○ datasets, query, etc.
Which other interfaces are desired by developers?

5. Design using Git workflows

6. Next steps and discussion
● Bootstrap the implementations on each toolkit
● Evolve the current design
● Get feedback from the commuity
● Currently working at Github, although at some point we
could move to Apache Commons or any suitable
organization

7. http://commons-rdf.github.io
acknowledgments to the MICO
FP7 project (grant no. 610480)
grazie!

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