The design and implementation of the redland RDF application framework
David Beckett · 2001
Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general description technology that can be applied to many application domains. Redland is a software library for RDF which implements a flexible framework that complements this power and provides a high-level interface allowing instances of the RDF model to be stored, queried and manipulated. Redland implements the model concepts using an objectbased API and provides several of the classes as modules which can be added, removed or replaced to provide different functionality or application-specific optimisations. The framework also provides a core technology for developing new RDF applications that can experiment with implementation techniques, APIs and representation issues. Keywords: RDF, metadata, application framework 1 Introduction RDF[1] is a general purpose technology that enables the description of resources on the web using URIs for identifying the resources and URIs for the properties that describe the resources. This desi...