Jena - a semantic web framework

Hello! Today I will introduce Jena - a framework for building semantic web applications.


From the official site of Jena:

Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web applications. It provides a programmatic environment for RDF, RDFS and OWL, SPARQL and includes a rule-based inference engine.

Jena is open source and grown out of work with the HP Labs Semantic Web Programme.

The Jena Framework includes:

• A RDF API
• Reading and writing RDF in RDF/XML, N3 and N-Triples
• An OWL API
• In-memory and persistent storage
• SPARQL query engine

Besides, Jena's documentation in sourceforge I found very useful this article by IBM for an introduction on how Jena works.

Another useful link, is this youtube video, which gives detailed instructions on using Jena in Netbeans. I don't know what language is this, but I understood what to do. :)

Cheers,

Angeliki