Description

Marifa is a Java framework developed to help publishers extract useful RDF data from catalogs and link it with other well-known datasets, such as dbpedia.org, ar.dbpedia.org, and wikidata.org.

Using Marifa

To use Marifa, please follow the following steps:

1. Clone the project to your local machine.
2. Complie the project (Maven).
3. Run the framework (see the next section).

Running the Framework

Marifa is used through the usage of arguments at launch time. Please add the arguments as described bellow to your IDE:

input namespace output_path [format]

Where:

• input: represents the catalog itself, for example: pub.xls.
• namespace: represents the namespace used by the publisher, for example: http://www.marefah.com/
• output_path: represents the output path without a file name, for instance: ../Desktop/
• format [Otional]: represents the serialization format. Possible formats are (without quotes):
  "RDF/XML-ABBREV" "RDF/XML" "TURTLE" "N-TRIPLES" "N3" "JSON-LD" "RDF/JSON".
  If no format is specified, then "RDF/XML" is used.

Issues & Suggestions

Please feel free to contact @ktobah for any suggestions you might have, or issues your might find.