rdflib 5.0.0

RDFLib is a pure Python package for working with RDF. RDFLib contains useful APIs for working with RDF, including:

• Parsers & Serializers

  • for RDF/XML, N3, NTriples, N-Quads, Turtle, TriX, RDFa and Microdata

  • and JSON-LD, via a plugin module

• Store implementations

  • for in-memory and persistent RDF storage - Berkeley DB

• Graph interface

  • to a single graph

  • or a conjunctive graph (multiple Named Graphs)

  • or a dataset of graphs

• SPARQL 1.1 implementation

  • supporting both Queries and Updates

Getting started

If you have never used RDFLib, the following will help get you started:

• Getting started with RDFLib
• Loading and saving RDF
• Creating RDF triples
• Navigating Graphs
• Querying with SPARQL
• Utilities and convenience functions
• Examples

In depth

If you are familiar with RDF and are looking for details on how RDFLib handles RDF, these are for you.

• RDF terms in rdflib
• Namespaces and Bindings
• Persistence
• Merging graphs
• Upgrading 4.2.2 to 5.0.0

Reference

The nitty-gritty details of everything.

API reference:

• rdflib

• Plugins
  • Plugin parsers
  • Plugin serializers
  • Plugin stores
  • Plugin query results

For developers

• RDFLib developers guide
• Writing RDFLib Documentation
• A Universal RDF Store Interface
• Persisting Notation 3 Terms

Developers might also like to join rdflib’s dev mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/rdflib-dev

The Code

The rdflib code is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib where you lodge Issues and also Pull Requests to help improve this community project!

The RDFlib organisation on GitHub at https://github.com/RDFLib maintains this package and a number of other RDF and related packaged that you might also find useful.

Further help

For asynchronous chat support, try our gitter channel at https://gitter.im/RDFLib/rdflib

If you would like more help with using rdflib, please post a question using the tag [rdflib] on StackOverflow. A list of existing [rdflib] tagged questions is there at:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rdflib