RDFS.rb: RDF Schema Reasoner for Ruby

This is a pure-Ruby forward-chaining inference engine supporting RDFS and RDFS++ entailment rules. It is intended to be used together with the [RDF.rb](rdf.rubyforge.org/) library.

### About RDF Schema (RDFS)

Examples

require 'rdfs'

### Defining an RDFS entailment rule class

# @see http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#RDFRules
class RDF1 < RDFS::Rule
  antecedent :uuu, :aaa, :yyy
  consequent :aaa, RDF.type, RDF.Property
end

### Defining an RDFS entailment rule instance

# @see http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#RDFRules
rdf1 = RDFS::Rule.new do
  antecedent :uuu, :aaa, :yyy
  consequent :aaa, RDF.type, RDF.Property
end

Documentation

Download

To get a local working copy of the development repository, do:

% git clone git://github.com/bendiken/rdfs.git

Alternatively, you can download the latest development version as a tarball as follows:

% wget http://github.com/bendiken/rdfs/tarball/master

Dependencies

Installation

The recommended installation method is via RubyGems. To install the latest official release from Gemcutter, do:

% [sudo] gem install rdfs

Resources

Authors

License

RDFS.rb is free and unencumbered public domain software. For more information, see <unlicense.org/> or the accompanying UNLICENSE file.