Binary Relations

Following up on Exchange of Named RDF Graphs and the rapidly developing ARC2 RDF system, I have written a PHP/ARC2 version of my script for parsing and serialising a graph archive, and repackaged the original version into a single script for Redland.

I will be using this for testing ARC2 (performance) with my photo database, to see if I can manage a simpler interface without sacrificing the excellent performance from Redland. So far, it seems parsing might be a bottleneck, but that isn’t really important, if the query handling is good (so far it looks great, I can implement a SPARQL endpoint in 6 lines of PHP) — I can do batch processing offline.

You can find the scripts and some example archives in its bzr repository: named-graph-exchange, and download the whole package in .zip- or .tgz-format.

Next in the pipeline is an implementation that talks to a SPARQL endpoint, only downstream for now, but possibly using SPARQL+ or SPARUL for remote updates in the future.

The scripts are licensed under the Eiffel Forum License, version 2, per sbp’s considerations.