Object mappers for RDF data

Date: June 14, 2013

Speaker: Manuel Salvadores, BMIR, Stanford University

Abstract

Main works discussed:

• ActiveRDF: object-oriented semantic web programming. Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru, Sebastian Gerke, Armin Haller, and Stefan Decker. WWW, page 817-824. ACM, (2007)
• Automatic mapping of OWL ontologies into Java. Kalyanpur, Aditya, Daniel Jiménez Pastor, Steve Battle, and Julian Padget. In SEKE, vol. 4, pp. 98-103. 2004.
• Introducing Goo: BioPortal’s New Scalable Framework for Accessing RDF Data. Manuel Salvadores, Paul R. Alexander, Ray W. Fergerson, Natalya F. Noy, and Mark A. Musen (submitted to ISWC 2013 in use track)

References

• Spira: A Linked Data ORM for Ruby. http://blog.datagraph.org/2010/05/spira
• RDFAlchemy is an ORM (Object RDF Mapper) for semantic web users. (Python). http://www.openvest.com/trac/wiki/RDFAlchemy
• Goo: BioPortal’s New Scalable Framework for Accessing RDF Data (Ruby). http://ncbo.github.io/goo/