Author: wikier
Date: Fri Mar 29 12:22:34 2013
New Revision: 1462455
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1462455
Log:
updated
Modified:
incubator/marmotta/site/trunk/content/markdown/ldclient/introduction.md.vm
Modified:
incubator/marmotta/site/trunk/content/markdown/ldclient/introduction.md.vm
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/marmotta/site/trunk/content/markdown/ldclient/introduction.md.vm?rev=1462455&r1=1462454&r2=1462455&view=diff
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--- incubator/marmotta/site/trunk/content/markdown/ldclient/introduction.md.vm
(original)
+++ incubator/marmotta/site/trunk/content/markdown/ldclient/introduction.md.vm
Fri Mar 29 12:22:34 2013
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
# Linked Data Client #
-The Apache Marmotta LDClient library is a flexible and modular Linked Data
Client that can be used by any Linked Data
-project independent of the Apache Marmotta platform. It provides the
infrastructure for retrieving remote Linked Data
-resources via different protocols (primarily HTTP) and offers pluggable
adapters (so-called "data providers") that
-wrap legacy data sources (e.g. YouTube or Facebook) as Linked Data resources
by mapping their data to appropriate RDF
-structures.
+The Apache Marmotta LDClient library is a flexible and modular Linked Data
Client
+([RDFizer](http://www.w3.org/wiki/ConverterToRdf)) that can be used by any
Linked
+Data project independent of the Apache Marmotta platform. In other words, it
+provides the infrastructure for retrieving remote resources via different
protocols
+(primarily HTTP) and offers pluggable adapters (called "data providers") that
wrap
+other data sources (e.g. YouTube or Facebook) as Linked Data resources by
mapping
+their data to appropriate RDF structures.
Core Libraries
--------------
@@ -29,6 +31,9 @@ resources. How they produce RDF in detai
for mapping XPath statements to RDF property values (used e.g. by the
YouTube backend)
* **ldclient-provider-html**: an abstract backend serving as a base for any
HTML-based data source; offers a model
for mapping jQuery-like CSS selectors to RDF property values (using
[JSoup](http://jsoup.org/))
+* **ldclient-provider-facebook**: enables the access the metadata of Facebook
objects using the
+ [Facebook Graph API](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/),
+ and maps them using FOAF, SIOC, SKOS or schema.org (experimental).
* **ldclient-provider-youtube**: allows accessing YouTube resources (videos,
playlists, channels) as if they were
proper Linked Data resources; maps properties to the [Ontology for Media
Resources](http://www.w3.org/TR/mediaont-10/)
* **ldclient-provider-vimeo**: allows accessing Vimeo resources (videos and
channels) as if they were proper
@@ -39,4 +44,3 @@ resources. How they produce RDF in detai
* **ldclient-provider-phpbb**: accesses the posts in a PHPBB forum and maps
them to the SIOC vocabulary (experimental)
* **ldclient-provider-ldap**: accesses users in a LDAP directory and maps them
to the FOAF vocabulary (experimental)
-
