Dear all, after months of work, we are happy to announce the general availability release of our Linked Media Framework 2.0 under Apache 2.0 License.
LMF Server ========== The Linked Media Framework is an easy-to-setup server application that bundles central Semantic Web technologies to offer advanced services. In this release, the following modules are included: - LMF SPARQL offers complete SPARQL 1.1 Query and Update support for modifying the triple store underlying the Linked Media Framework - LMF LD Path offers user-friendly querying over the Linked Data Cloud based on the LDPath language - LMF Semantic Search offers a highly configurable Semantic Search service based on Apache SOLR. Several semantic search indexes can be configured in the same LMF instance. - LMF Linked Data Cache implements a cache to the Linked Data Cloud that is transparently used when querying the content of the LMF using either LDPath or the Semantic Search component. In case a local resource links to a remote resource in the Linked Data Cloud and this relationship is queried, the remote resource will be retrieved in the background and cached locally. - LMF Reasoner implements a rule-based reasoner that allows to process Datalog-style rules over RDF triples; the LMF Reasoner is be based on the reasoning component developed in the KiWi project, the predecessor of LMF - LMF Text Classification provides basic statistical text classification services; multiple classifiers can be created, trained with sample data and used to classify texts into categories - LMF Versioning implements versioning of metadata updates; the module allows getting metadata snapshots for a resource for any time in its history and provides an implementation of the memento protocol LMF Client Library ================== Accompanying the LMF server is a LMF Client Library, currently implemented for Java, PHP and Javascript, that allows simple access to the main functionalities of the LMF from several popular software development environments. The LMF Client Library is available as a separate download and can be used with local as well as remote LMF installations. Download ========= Version 2.0.0 of the LMF has been released today. It is available for download in several different forms: - Standalone Installer (bundling Apache Tomcat, the LMF Server, and H2 db): http://lmf.googlecode.com/files/lmf-standalone-2.0.0-installer.jar Run with java -jar (or double-click) and follow the instructions - Java Web Application (for Jetty Tomcat and other Servlet containers): http://lmf.googlecode.com/files/LMF-2.0.0.war Deploy as usual in Tomcat or Jetty, but don't forget to set memory parameters correctly (heap and permgenspace) - Source Code (requires Mercurial and Gradle): http://code.google.com/p/lmf/source/checkout - Build Environment for custom projects (requires Gradle): http://lmf.googlecode.com/files/lmf-buildenv-2.0.0.zip Unzip, run "gradle jettyRun" or "gradle idea" … and start implementing your own LMF extensions. - Maven Artifacts: The core modules of the LMF are also available as Maven artifacts at our Maven repository at http://devel.kiwi-project.eu:8080/nexus/content/groups/public/ Documentation ============= We have tried to provide as much documentation as was possible so far. Here are some entry points: - Installation and Setup: http://code.google.com/p/lmf/wiki/InstallationSetup - Introduction for Developers http://code.google.com/p/lmf/wiki/DeveloperIntroduction - Java API: http://doc.lmf.googlecode.com/hg/api/index.html - Webservice API: http://doc.lmf.googlecode.com/hg/rest/overview-summary.html In general, the Wiki at Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/lmf/w/list) provides a good entry point. Scenarios ========= Why another Linked Data Server? We had a number of scenarios in mind where the Linked Media Framework can offer you immediate benefit: 1. Quickly setting up a Linked Data server Setting up the LMF can be done in 5 minutes; together with Google Refine+RDF Extension, you can publish legacy structured data very quickly. I can give you a quick demo whenever you want ;-) 2. Building Media + Linked Data applications The LMF offers you to manage multimedia data (videos, images, etc) and the corresponding metadata (e.g. using Media Fragments URI and the Ontology for Media Resources). See our demo at WWW if you are interested. A demo installation with content from our partner Red Bull Mediahouse is available under: - http://labs.newmedialab.at/RedBull/video/redbull.html Note that this server still runs a pre-release version of the LMF Server. We will update the server to the final release in the next weeks. 3. Implementing Semantic Search based on Linked Data Another scenario we are working on is to facilitate Linked Data sources to improve full-text search over media content. For example, we are doing this together with Salzburger Nachrichten, one of the big Austrian news providers by interlinking news article content with Linked Data (GeoNames and others). As a side effect, we also have 1.1 million news articles published as Linked Data ;-) The dataset will be officially deployed under http://search.salzburg.com in the coming days. In the meantime, you can have a preview on the application and data at: - http://search-dev.salzburg.com/news/ (search interface) - http://search-dev.salzburg.com/news/resource?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.salzburg.com%2Fnews%2Fresource%2Fsn%2Fnews%2Fnacht_01.12.2011_41-36427556 (sample resource, use with Firefox or some linked data client) - http://search-dev.salzburg.com/news/meta/text/html?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.salzburg.com%2Fnews%2Fresource%2Fsn%2Fnews%2Fnacht_01.12.2011_41-36427556 (direct html link, any browser) If you have any questions don't hesistate to ask me or any of the colleagues at Salzburg Research. Have fun! Sebastian -- | Dr. Sebastian Schaffert [email protected] | Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft http://www.salzburgresearch.at | Head of Knowledge and Media Technologies Group +43 662 2288 423 | Jakob-Haringer Strasse 5/II | A-5020 Salzburg
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