If you then navigate to you should see the following:ĭon’t let the title ‘Not found’ put you off. To set up and start a triplestore called ‘reference’ with a SPARQL endpoint running on port 8000, type the following commands: When you run the 4store application you get a command line prompt. dmg and installing the 4store application by dragging it into your Applications folder. For a Mac, it’s a matter of going to the list of Mac downloads, downloading the most recent version, opening the. If you want to install it on Ubuntu, there’s a package available. I’m going to use 4store because it’s really easy to install on the Mac. I’ll breeze on through as if everything is hunky dory, but there are some caveats at the end. I am on Mac OS X, and I’m going to use Ruby (although I don’t really know it all that well, so please forgive my mistakes). I think that this is a great motivating challenge for improving not only the documentation of how to use RDF stores and libraries but how to improve their generally installability and usability for developers as well.Īnyway, I thought I’d try to get as far as I could to see just how bad things really are. I’ve been told so many time how RDF sucks for mainstream developers that it was the main point of my TPAC talk late last year. Convert retrieved data into an object or datatype that can be used by the chosen programming language (e.g.Programatically retrieve data from the datastore with SPARQL using using either PHP, Ruby or Python.Programatically load some real-world data into the RDF datastore using either PHP, Ruby or Python.Install a code library (again from a package management system) for talking to the RDF store in either PHP, Ruby or Python.Install an RDF store from a package management system on a computer running either Apple’s OSX or Ubuntu Desktop.

In it, he asks for documentation of the following steps: This post is a response to Richard Pope’s Linked Data/RDF/SPARQL Documentation Challenge.

Updated to include some of Arto Bendicken’s recommendations. To see the full thing, including comments, it's best to visit the Internet Archive. This post was imported from my old Drupal blog. Getting Started with RDF and SPARQL Using 4store and RDF.rb

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