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Welcome to the documentation for the Sitecore Linked Data module.
The module is available from NuGet and the Module is on the Sitecore Marketplace.
Linked Data describes a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried. Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data.
##What is an RDF triple? RDF is a standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and it provides a very simple way of encoding data that is based around making a series of statements about resources. These statements relate one object to another object via some kind of property. Formally these statements take the form subject-predicate-object and are known as ‘triples’. Quote from http://data.gov.uk/blog/what-linked-data.
##What does this module do? The module replaces the Sitecore Link Database with a Linked Data Triple Store. This takes the item link management and extends it to provide the following features:
- Configuration of concepts to make the semantics of data in Sitecore clear. See Concept configuration.
- Allows interesting queries of data in Sitecore. See Code examples.
- Enables organisations to create a Linked open data dataset, like DBPedia, by making their Sparql enabled triple store open. See Triple store configuration.
##What inspired the module? This module began as a personal project to help me understand Linked Data and triple stores. It was inspired by a presentation on the BBC Linked Data Platform.
Also by working with a Sitecore customer that has masses of content, in various Sitecore item buckets for each data type and with complex relationships between these data types that needed to be expressed visually. With the desire in the future to make their data open.
##How can you help? Feedback on the module would be much appreciated and any feature requests please raise as issues on GitHub. Cheers, @adamsimsy.