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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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<title>Rasqal RDF Query Library</title>
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<body>
<h1 style="text-align:center">Rasqal RDF Query Library</h1>
<h2 style="text-align:center"><a href="http://purl.org/net/dajobe/">Dave Beckett</a><br /><a href="http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/">Institute for Learning and Research Technology</a><br /><a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/">University of Bristol</a></h2>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p><a href="http://librdf.org/rasqal/">Rasqal</a>
is a free software / Open Source C library that handles Resource
Description Framework (RDF) query syntaxes, query construction and
query execution returning result bindings. The supported query
languages are RDQL and SPARQL.</p>
<p>Rasqal was designed to work closely with the
<a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland RDF library</a>
but is entirely separate. It is intended to be a portable library
working across many POSIX systems (Unix, GNU/Linux, BSDs, OSX, cygwin)
win32 and others.
</p>
<p>This is a beta quality library - the code is mature
but the API is still changing. See the
<a href="TODO.html">todo list</a>
for the current state information. A summary
of the changes can be found in the <a href="NEWS.html">NEWS</a> file,
detailed API changes in the <a href="RELEASE.html">release notes</a>
and file-by-file changes in the CVS <a href="ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.</p>
<p>Rasqal provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>An RDF <a href="docs/api/query.html">query</a> construction and access API.</li>
<li>A query execution engine including constraint expression evaluation.</li>
<li>A query result binding API.</li>
<li>Query language support for <a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-RDQL-20040109/">RDQL</a>.</li>
<li>Query language support for <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20041012/">SPARQL</a>.</li>
<li>Triple store querying APIs to support running over external RDF graphs.</li>
<li>No memory leaks.</li>
<li><a href="roqet.html">roqet</a> standalone RDF query utility program</li>
</ul>
<p>Rasqal does not provide an RDF API or triple store, but relies on
external libraries implementing the triple store API providing
matched RDF data originally from a specified content URI. Rasqal
ships with triple store implementations using the output of an RDF
parser from
<a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">Raptor</a>
and over a
<a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland</a>
indexed triple store. These can be called using the standalone
<a href="roqet.html">roqet</a>
query utility giving a query language
identifier and query string to run the query over content
described inside the query string (in RDQL, the <code>FROM</code> clause).
</p>
<p>Rasqal also works inside Redland (0.9.17 or newer) to provide
support for query languages, a query API and a result bindings API
over graphs stored in Redland.
</p>
<h2>Supported Query Languages</h2>
<h3>RDF Data Query Language (RDQL)</h3>
<p>Rasqal provides a complete parser and query constructor for the RDQL
language, as defined in
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-RDQL-20040109/">RDQL - A Query Language for RDF</a>,
W3C Member Submission 9 January 2004
based on the earlier versions in Jena defined in
<a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/rdql.htm">RDQL RDF Data Query Language</a>
and the
<a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/rdql-grammar.html">RDQL Grammar</a>.
The
<a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/doc/tutorial/RDQL/">Jena RDQL Tutorial</a>
gives an introduction on the language.
Rasqal currently passes the majority of the
<a href="http://jena.hpl.hp.com/2003/07/query/">Jena RDQL test suite</a>.
Further information on the status of the RDQL support is given in the
Rasqal <a href="TODO.html#rdql">todo / bugs list</a>.</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language for RDF</h3>
<p>Rasqal provides initial support for the W3C SPARQL Query Language
being developed by the W3C
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/">RDF Data Access Working Group</a>,
as defined in
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20041012/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>,
W3C Working Draft, 12 October 2004.
It currently implements only the functionality in common with RDQL.
For further information on the state, see the Rasqal
<a href="TODO.html#sparql">todo / bugs list</a>.</p>
<h2>Installation and Documentation</h2>
<p>The public API is described in the
<a href="librasqal.html">librasqal.3</a> UNIX manual page
and in more detail in the
<a href="docs/api/index.html">API reference</a>.
It is demonstrated in the
<a href="roqet.html">roqet</a>
utility program which shows how to call the query engine and
operate over the query results. When Rasqal is used inside
<a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland</a>,
the Redland documentation explains
how to call the query engine and contains several example programs.
</p>
<p>To install Rasqal see the <a href="INSTALL.html">Installation document</a>.
</p>
<h2>Sources</h2>
<p>The packaged sources are available from
<a href="http://librdf.org/dist/source/">http://librdf.org/dist/source/</a> (master site) and also from the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/librdf/">SourceForge site</a>.
There are
<a href="http://librdf.org/dist/snapshots/source/">nightly snapshots</a> of the development version which is can also be browsed via
<a href="http://cvs.librdf.org/cvsweb/redland/rasqal/">CVSweb</a>.
Binary packages of Rasqal and related libraries are available from the
<a href="http://librdf.org/dist/">download area</a>.
</p>
<p>Rasqal requires <a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">Raptor</a> 1.4.0
or newer to build and run, which can be downloaded from the same area
as the Rasqal source and binaries.</p>
<h2>License</h2>
<p>This library is free software / open source software released
under the LGPL (GPL) or Apache 2.0 licenses. See
<a href="LICENSE.html">LICENSE.html</a> for full details.</p>
<h2>Mailing Lists</h2>
<p>The
<a href="http://librdf.org/lists/">Redland mailing lists</a>
discusses the development and use of Rasqal and Redland as well as
future plans and announcement of releases.</p>
<hr />
<p>Copyright 2003-2005 <a href="http://purl.org/net/dajobe/">Dave Beckett</a>, <a href="http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/">Institute for Learning and Research Technology</a>, <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/">University of Bristol</a></p>
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