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RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information.

The library contains parsers and serializers for RDF/XML, N3, NTriples, Turtle, TriX, RDFa and Microdata.

The library presents a Graph interface which can be backed by any one of a number of store implementations including: memory and Sleepycat/BerkeleyDB. With extension projects, stores based on MySQL, SQLite, remote SPARQL Endpoints, etc. are also possible.

News

• 2013/03/01 - RDFLib 3.4.0 released - structured data in HTML parsers added.
• 2012/10/10 - RDFLib 3.2.3 released
• 2012/09/25 - RDFLib 3.2.2 released! Maintenance release.
• 2012/01/19 - RDFLib 3.2.0 released! Main changes is full Python3 support as well as updated tests and documentation! (See full changelog)
• 2011/03/30 - We moved from SVN to Mercurial. Tags and the trunk was converted with full history, BUT BRANCHES NOT. If you need anything that was not converted, the SVN repository is still there at the same location, but please do not commit any new stuff there!
• 2011/03/21 - RDFLib 3.1 released! (Changelog)

RDFLib wiki

• Home Home page
• FAQ Frequently Asked Questions about using RDFLib

RDFLib 3.X quick introductions

• Introduction to parsing RDF into RDFLib graphs
• Introduction to using SPARQL to query an RDFLib graph
• Simple example of using Sleepycat as a triple store with RDFLib
• Changes to RDFLib made from v2.4.X to v3.0

RDFLib 2.4.X quick introductions

• Introduction to parsing RDF into RDFLib graphs
• Simple example of using MySQL as a triple store with RDFLib
• Overview of using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a triple store.
• Instructions for setting up RDFLib/Python 2.4 on Windows

More specialised topics

• Example foaf smushing filter a graph by normalizing all foaf persons into URIs based on their mbox_sha1sum
• Transitive traversal How to use the transitive_objects and transitive_subjects graph methods

End Users

General documentation and API docs are on ReadTheDocs They are up-to-date wrt. to the latest state of the source repositories.

Read about Learning RDFLib here in this wiki.

See also the RDFLib homepage for more information on installing and learning RDFLib.

Related Projects

Many related projects exist that provide inference engines or additional store support for RDFLib.

RDFLib Development

See the Roadmap for RDFLib development and the Developer Guide, a guide for RDFLib developers to follow.

Discuss

There is a #redfoot irc channel on irc.freenode.net for anyone who wants to chat about RDFLib or redfoot. See freenode for more information.

There is also a Google group that is used as a mailing list