Prerequisites

Prerequisites

For efficient collaboration, participants are expected to be familiar with relevant technologies and resources.

Standards

• RDF (RDF 1.1 Primer)

• SPARQL (SPARQL 1.1 Query Language)

• OWL (OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview)

• REST(Wikipedia)

• JSON (Introducing JSON)

Programming

• any modern programming language should be fine, if modules for handling the above standards are available.

  • Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Javascript, ...

• Web service programming

  • Java: Tomcat, GlassFish

  • Python: Django, Bottle

  • Ruby: Sinatra, Rails

Tools and Systems

• Version Control System

  • Git (GitHub)

    • Book: Pro Git

    • Tutorial: Become a git guru

    • Article: A successful Git branching model

• RDF store

  • Virtuoso open source: repository

• REST client

  • cURL unix command (man page)

Data Sets

• DBpedia

• Bio2RDF

• QALD evaluation suite