
                          Rasqal Rdf Query Library

                                Dave Beckett
               Institute for Learning and Research Technology
                           University of Bristol

Overview

   Rasqal is a free software/Open Source C library that handles RDF query
   syntaxes and query construction..

   Rasqal  was  designed to work closely with the Redland RDF library but
   is  entirely separate. It is intended to be a portable library working
   across many POSIX systems.

   This  is  an  alpha  quality  library  - the code and APIs are new and
   likely to change. See the to do list for more information. Changes can
   be found in the NEWS file or more detailed changes in the ChangeLog.

Query Languages

  RDQL Parser

   A Parser for the RDQL language.

Documentation

   The public API is described in the librasqal.3 UNIX manual page.

   To install Rasqal see the Installation document.

Sources

   The packaged sources are available from
   http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/dist/source/   (master  site)  and
   also  from  the  SourceForge  site. There are nightly snapshots of the
   development version which is can also be browsed via CVSweb.

License

   This  library  is  free software / open source software released under
   the LGPL or MPL licenses. See LICENSE.html for full details.

Mailing Lists

   The  Redland mailing lists discusses the development and use of Rasqal
   and Redland as well as future plans and announcement of releases.
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   Copyright  2003  Dave  Beckett,  Institute  for  Learning and Research
   Technology, University of Bristol
