Hi all,
At Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium we have been working for a couple
of years on a tool which assists organisations to publish data. It
provides an HTTP API which supports most of the REST principles on top
of all kinds of datasets. You can then get the data in RDF, if there is
an RDF representation available, in JSON/XML/CSV or even on a basic
visualisation. The data is not stored in The DataTank, it is only adapted.
It's Open Source and the new version has just been launched. We would
love to welcome new contributors, testers (feel free to open issues on
github), people who integrate it with existing data portals (e.g., CKAN
and Drupal integration is work in progress), and so on.
Github: http://github.com/tdt/core
Demo: http://demo.thedatatank.com
Docs: http://docs.thedatatank.com
The feature that may be most interesting for this community is the
SPARQL source. With one curl command, or with a couple of clicks, you
can proxy a SPARQL query on a SPARQL endpoint in no time. This might be
interesting if you don't want to host a public SPARQL endpoint, but you
do want to publish some entities in your triplestore.
Example resource which fetches data from dbpedia:
http://demo.thedatatank.com/dbpedia/stations
Kind regards,
Pieter Colpaert
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Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium
http://okfn.be
Open Transport Working Group OKFN
http://transport.okfn.org
