ldp (Linked Data Platform)

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What is ldp?

Linked Data Platform client library for Ruby

Product Owner & Maintenance

ldp was a Core Component of the Samvera Community. Given a decline in available labor required for maintenance, this project no longer has a dedicated Product Owner. The documentation for what this means can be found here.

Product Owner

Vacant

Until a Product Owner has been identified, we ask that you please direct all requests for support, bug reports, and general questions to the #dev Channel on the Samvera Slack.

Help

The Samvera community is here to help. Please see our support guide.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ldp'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ldp

Usage

host = 'http://localhost:8080'
client = Ldp::Client.new(host)
resource = Ldp::Resource.new(client, host + '/rest/node/to/update')
orm = Ldp::Orm.new(resource)

# view the current title(s)
orm.orm.value(RDF::DC11.title)

# update the title
orm.graph.delete([orm.resource.subject_uri, RDF::DC11.title, nil])
orm.graph.insert([orm.resource.subject_uri, RDF::DC11.title, 'a new title'])

# save changes
orm.save

Contributing

If you're working on PR for this project, create a feature branch off of main.

This repository follows the Samvera Community Code of Conduct and language recommendations. Please do not create a branch called main for this repository or as part of your pull request; the branch will either need to be removed or renamed before it can be considered for inclusion in the code base and history of this repository.

Testing:

  • Set Rails version you want to test against. For example:

    • export RAILS_VERSION=5.1.4

  • Ensure that the correct version of Rails is installed: bundle update

  • And run tests: bundle exec rake rspec

Releasing

  1. bundle install
  2. Increase the version number in lib/ldp/version.rb
  3. Increase the same version number in .github_changelog_generator
  4. Update CHANGELOG.md by running this command: github_changelog_generator --user samvera --project ldp --token YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN_HERE
  5. Commit these changes to the main branch
  6. Run rake release

Acknowledgments

This software has been developed by and is brought to you by the Samvera community. Learn more at the Samvera website

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