RDFAlchemy is an abstraction layer, allowing python developers to use familiar dot notation to access and update an rdf triplestore.

  • RDFAlchemy is an ORM (Object Rdf Mapper) for graph data as:
  • SQLAlchemy is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) for relalational databases

Allows access to:

Provides intuitive access to RDF values by accessing predicate values through dot notation.

ov = Namespace('http://owl.openvest.org/2005/10/Portfolio#')
class Company(rdfSubject):
  rdf_type = ov.Company
  symbol = rdfSingle(ov.symbol,'symbol')  #second param is optional
  cik = rdfSingle(ov.secCik)
  companyName = rdfSingle(ov.companyName)
c = Company.get_by(symbol = 'IBM')
print "%s has an SEC symbol of %s" % (c.companyName, c.cik)

Includes advanced descriptors for read/write access to lists and collections.

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