RDF libraries for ruby

So I don’t forget I am playing round with some rdf related libraries Redland libraries are c based libraries with bindings to a number of languages

# emerge redland redland-bindings

ActiveRDF is an object oriented interface to RDF data. It has a number of backends that can be used to query datasources.

# gem install activerdf activerdf_redland activerdf_sparql

RDFa is a library for adding RDFa metadata to ruby and especially rails applications.

# gem install rdfa

mofo is a Microformat scanner library

# gem install mofo

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:50 Posted in Semantic Web

By Frank Bennett 8 months later:

Hi, Edward. I live in Nagoya, and have occasionally attended TLUG meetings in the past. Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been putting a lot of time into refactoring the citation formatting module for Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/). It’s been an interesting experience, both as a technical journey of discovery, and as a first dose (personally) of collaborative programming in a social networking environment. I occasionally get up to Tokyo, if you think the group might be interested, I would be happy to give a talk sometime if we can line up schedules.

The Zotero team are just beginning trials of the new processor, it has a good chance of being merged into a beta release sometime in the Fall, I reckon. The processor is a standalone program, though, and can be run through an API to provide citation or reference formatting services to a portal or website. Who knows, it might even prove directly useful to some of the people in the group.

Anyway, the code is here: http://bitbucket.org/fbennett/citeproc-js/wiki/Home

Drop me a line if you think the group would be interested in a little talk about this project.
By Edward Middleton 9 months later:

Hi Frank, Zotero looks very interesting. I will have to look at it in more detail. I am very interested in systems for developing Knowledge bases especially with open content sources.