Getting Started

The simplest way to get hold of dotNetRDF is via our NuGet packages.

We have split dotNetRDF into a number of separate packages to give developers a little more control over exactly which APIs and which additional third-party dependencies they need to include in their projects.

  • To do basic reading/writing and in-memory processing and querying with SPARQL, get the core dotNetRdf.Core package.
  • To work with dotNetRDF as a client interacting with one of the supported triple stores (other than Virtuoso), get the dotNetRdf.Client package.
  • To work with Virtuoso, get the dotNetRdf.Data.Virtuoso package.
  • For a single dependency that pulls in all of the dotNetRDF libraries, use the dotNetRdf meta-package.
Note

You may have spotted that although this project is called dotNetRDF, for package names we follow the common .NET approach to camel-casing the TLA RDF. Hence our package names all use dotNetRdf.

We also provide a number of additional packages that extend the core APIs with additional functionality and support for other RDF-related standards.

dotNetRdf.Data.DataTables : Supports integration between the dotNetRDF API and System.Data.DataTables

dotNetRdf.Dynamic : Provides a dynamic objects-based API for working with RDF graphs.

dotNetRdf.Inferencing : Provides an API and some support for simple reasoning over RDF graps.

dotNetRdf.Ontology : Provides a set of high-level APIs for working with RDF Schema and OWL ontologies.

dotNetRdf.Query.FullText : Extends the in-memory SPARQL store with support for full-text queries using a Lucene.NET text index.

dotNetRdf.Query.SPIN : An implentation of SPARQL Inferencing Notation over the dotNetRdf SPARQL API.

dotNetRdf.Shacl : Implements the Shape Constraint Language standard.

dotNetRdf.Skos : Provides a high-level API for working with the Simple Knowledge Organization System ontology.

dotNetRdf.Writing.HtmlSchema : Provides a writer that generates HTML documentation from an OWL ontology or RDF Schema instance. (This writer is separated out from the core library as it introduces a dependency on System.Web)