Getting Started

This is about how to get startet with SymbolicData v. 3.

• Some information about the History of the project.
• Quick Start to Queries
• More Queries

Meanwhile the experience with complex Semantic Web tasks is coined into a whole stack of protocols for different levels of communication. In particular, there is a clear distinction between Resources (with XML and XSchema proved useful to describe their data structures) and Descriptions (with RDF and OWL as appropriate standards). This is the current direction of development of a third version of SymbolicData.

Tools and data are designed to be used both

• on a local site for special testing and profiling purposes
• and to manage our central repository at symbolicdata.org.

To learn more about how the central resources are organized see

• our poster that displays the overall structure and embedding of the project
• the Site-Guide that explains the main ideas behind this wiki and
• the Infrastructure-Guide that explains the meaning and location of the resources maintained by our project.

To use the project locally you have to clone some or all of our different repos:

• code The SD code directory
• data The SD data store
• publications The SD publications directory
• web The SD web examples

Learn more about

• how we organize our git cooperation
• how to set up a local RDF store