InfeRDF is an RDF Engine, a tool to complete RDF interpretations from deduction rules describing the semantics of resources and properties.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a very simple graph data model used to represent arbitrary pieces of information. Nodes of the graph are called resources, and resources are connected together using relations, which are resources themselves. To express resources in a textual way, each resource is given a lexical representation, a term, which can either be
- a literal value (such as a number, a text string, etc.),
- an International Resource Identifier (IRI); or
- a blank node identifier, which is local to the document.
Here is a example defining a single edge of an RDF graph, a triple subject-predicate-object, stating that the name of this repository is "InfeRDF":
<https://github.com/spruceid/inferdf-rs> <http://schema.org/name> "InfeRDF"
Thanks to this simplicity, writing RDF datasets is straight-forward. However
processing an RDF dataset from its textual representation is not so.
Triples may have a meaning that implies the presence of other omitted triples.
A semantics that should be captured by the processor. In the example above, it
is implied that http://schema.org/name is a property, which is specified by
the following omitted triple:
<http://schema.org/name> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property>
InfeRDF can help you infer those omitted triples.