rdflib 6.1.1

RDFLib is a pure Python package for working with RDF. It contains:

• Parsers & Serializers

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

• Store implementations

  • for in-memory and persistent RDF storage, including remote SPARQL endpoints

• Graph interface

  • to a single graph

  • or a conjunctive graph (multiple Named Graphs)

  • or a dataset of graphs

• SPARQL 1.1 implementation

  • both Queries and Updates are supported

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 & convenience functions
• Examples

In depth

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

• RDF terms in rdflib
• Namespaces and Bindings
• Persistence
• Merging graphs
• Upgrading 5.0.0 to 6.0.0
• 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
• Persisting Notation 3 Terms

Source Code

The rdflib source code is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib where you can lodge Issues and create 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 RDFlib-related packaged that you might also find useful.

Further help & Contact

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

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

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

The chat is available at gitter or via matrix #RDFLib_rdflib:gitter.im.

Glossary

Here are a few RDF and Python terms referred to in this documentation. They are linked to wherever they occur.

functional property

Properties than can only occur once for a resource, i.e. for any relation (triple, in RDF) x p y, if p is functional, for any individual x, there can be at most one individual y.

OWL

The OWL 2 Web Ontology Language, informally OWL 2 or just OWL, is an ontology language for the Semantic Web with formally defined meaning. OWL 2 ontologies provide classes, properties, individuals, and data values and are stored as Semantic Web documents. OWL 2 ontologies can be used along with information written in RDF, and OWL 2 ontologies themselves are primarily exchanged as RDF documents. See the RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax for more info.

RDF

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web. RDF data is stored in graphs that are sets of subject-predicate-object triples, where the elements may be IRIs, blank nodes, or datatyped literals. See the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview for more info.