[Tutor] using rdflib

[Danny Yoo]

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Shantanu Mahajan wrote:

> 	Can anyone point me to the tutorial for using rdflib?

Hi Shantanu,


By rdflib, I'll assume that you mean a library to work with the 'Resource
Description Framework':

    http://rdflib.net/

Isn't this the Semantic Web stuff that Tim Bernes-Lee is working on?
Very cool!


But I haven't had a chance to dive into this yet.  The documentation on
rdflib,

    http://rdflib.net/stable/doc/index.html


seems slightly... well, not quite complete yet.  *grin* There are examples
that you can experiment with:

    http://rdflib.net/stable/example.py
    http://rdflib.net/stable/example_btree.py

which try to show common use of the rdflib.TripleStore module to work with
those RDF triples.


Unfortunately, I can't find an introduction tutorial to rdflib itself. If
we use Google, we should be able to find introductory material for 'rdf'.
For example,

    http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html
    http://www.zvon.org/xxl/RDFTutorial/General/book.html

but I haven't yet found anything that introduces rdflib itself.


You may want to ask your question on the newsgroup 'comp.lang.python'
instead: RDF is actually really specialized, and many of us may not be
experienced enough with it to help you find good resources.


Good luck to you.