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# The ASF asks: Have you met Apache Marmotta?
-The all-volunteer Apache Software Foundation (ASF) develops, stewards, and
-incubates over 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, many of which power
-mission-critical applications in financial services, aerospace, publishing,
-government, healthcare, research, infrastructure, and more.
-
-Did you know that 50% of the Top 10 downloaded Open Source products are Apache
-projects? Did you know that one of the [most active
projects](https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/apache/projects)
-currently is Apache Marmotta?
-
-We are pleased to showcase [Apache Marmotta](http://marmotta.apache.org), an
-Open Platform for Linked Data.
-
-__Quick peek:__ [Linked Data](http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data) is
a
-paradigm promoted by W3C for large scale data integration across the Web based
-the RDF technology stack.
-
-__Background:__ In short, because [the story is much
longer](http://redlink.co/apache-marmotta/),
-the project was initiated by a group of researchers from [Salzburg
Research](http://www.salzburgresearch.at),
-contributed to Apache Incubator in December of 2012. Apache Marmotta has
recently
-graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project, with the fresh support of new
individual
-committers and companies interested on sponsor their activities.
-
-__Why Marmotta:__ Apache Marmotta was born to provide to the industry an open
source
-implementation of Linked Data technologies in general, and
-[Linked Data Platform](http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/) in particular. Usually
organizations
-who want to use this technology need to assemble together different pieces of
software,
-with the obvious problems derived, both technical and legal. Apache Marmotta
comes
-to satisfy that need of the industry supporting almost any use-case with a
permissive
-open source license.
-
-__What's under the hood:__ Apache Marmotta includes features that make easier
building
-Linked Data applications, including: full Read-Write Linked Data with basic
security
-mechanism, exchangeable RDF triple stores, SPARQL and LDPath languages for
querying,
-transparent Linked Data caching and an extensible modules architecture where
you can
-plug-in your own modules.
+The all-volunteer Apache Software Foundation (ASF) develops, stewards, and
incubates over 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, many of which power
mission-critical applications in financial services, aerospace, publishing, big
data, government, healthcare, research, infrastructure, and more.
-Apache Marmotta comes with the following components:
+Did you know that 50% of the Top 10 downloaded Open Source products are Apache
projects? Did you know that one of the <a
href="https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/apache/projects";>ASF's most active
projects</a> is <a href="http://marmotta.apache.org";>Apache Marmotta </a>?
+
+__Quick peek:__ Apache Marmotta is an Open Platform for <a
href="http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data";>Linked Data</a>, a paradigm
promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for large scale data
integration across the Web based the RDF technology stack.
+
+__Background:__ Initiated in 2008 by a group of researchers from <a
href="http://www.salzburgresearch.at";>Salzburg Research</a> as the EU-funded
KiWi project (investigated the idea of "Semantic Wikis" and aimed at combining
easily editable Web content with Semantic Web technologies to provide data to
both human and machine users), the project was renamed "Marmotta" and
contributed to the Apache Incubator in December of 2012. Apache Marmotta
graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project in November 2013.
+
+A history of the project is available at (http://redlink.co/apache-marmotta/
and
http://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/2013/apache-marmotta-graduated-top-level-project/
).
+
+__Why Marmotta:__ Apache Marmotta was created to provide an Open Source
implementation of Linked Data technologies in general, and <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/";>Linked Data Platform</a> in particular.
Usually organizations who want to use this technology need to assemble together
different pieces of software, with the obvious problems derived, both technical
and legal. Apache Marmotta satisfies that need of the industry, supporting
almost any use-case with a permissive Open Source license.
+
+__What's under the hood:__ Apache Marmotta includes features that make easier
building Linked Data applications, including: full Read-Write Linked Data with
basic security mechanism, exchangeable RDF triple stores, SPARQL and LDPath
languages for querying, transparent Linked Data caching and an extensible
modules architecture where you can plug-in your own modules.
+
+Apache Marmotta comprises the following components:
* The Marmotta Platform, a JavaEE web application providing the Linked Data
server.
-* [KiWi](http://marmotta.apache.org/kiwi), a Sesame-based triple store built
on top of a relational database, including reasoning and versioning.
-* [LDPath](http://marmotta.apache.org/ldpath), a path language to navigate
across Linked Data resources.
-* [LDClient](http://marmotta.apache.org/ldclient), a client that allows
retrieval of remote legacy resources not available as Linked Data.
-* [LDCache](http://marmotta.apache.org/ldcache), a cache system that
automatically retrieves resources by internally using LDClient.
-
-__Latest release:__ Apache Marmotta v3.1.0-incubating on 13 October 2012 under
-the Apache License v.2.0. More details can be found in the
-[release
notes](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12314321&version=12324026&styleName=Text).
-In the upcoming weeks the projects plans to release its next version, the first
-one as on official Apache Top-Level Project, so stay tuned.
+* <a href="http://marmotta.apache.org/kiwi";>KiWi</a>, a Sesame-based triple
store built on top of a relational database, including reasoning and versioning.
+* <a href="http://marmotta.apache.org/ldpath";>LDPath</a>, a path language to
navigate across Linked Data resources.
+* <a href="http://marmotta.apache.org/ldclient";>LDClient</a>, a client that
allows retrieval of remote legacy resources not available as Linked Data.
+* <a href="http://marmotta.apache.org/ldcache";>LDCache</a>, a cache system
that automatically retrieves resources by internally using LDClient.
+
+__Latest release:__ Apache Marmotta v3.1.0-incubating on 13 October 2012 under
the Apache License v.2.0. More details can be found in the <a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12314321&version=12324026&styleName=Text";>Release
notes</a>.
+
+In the upcoming weeks the Project plans to release its next version --the
first one as on official Apache Top-Level Project. Stay tuned via the Apache
Marmotta developer, user, and commit lists at
http://marmotta.apache.org/mail-lists.html
-__Downloads, documentation, examples, and more information: visit:__
-[marmotta.apache.org](http://marmotta.apache.org)
+__Downloads, documentation, examples, and more information: visit:__ <a
href="http://marmotta.apache.org";>http://marmotta.apache.org</a>
