[redland-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: Redland RDF Application Framework 1.0.0

[Dave Beckett]

	       Redland RDF Application Framework 1.0.0
			 http://librdf.org/

Redland is a C library that provides a high-level interface for the
Resource Description Framework (RDF) allowing the RDF graph to be
parsed, serialized, stored, queried and manipulated.  It is a mature,
and portable library that works across many POSIX systems (Unix,
GNU/Linux, BSDs, OSX, cygwin), win32 and others.

Redland implements each of the RDF concepts in its own class via an
object based API, reflected into the other language APIs - C#, Java,
Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl provided by the Redland Bindings[1].
Some of the classes providing the parsers, storage mechanisms and
other elements are built as modules that can be added or removed as
required.

This version is Redland 1.0 as this is a mature library.
(The first release 0.9.0 was made on 2000-08-18).

The main changes are:
  * Updated to use Rasqal[2] 0.9.6 for better query and SPARQL support
  * Updated to use Raptor[3] 1.4.5 for new RDF/XML abbreviated
serializer,
    improved RSS tag soup parser and RSS 1.0 serializer
  * New experimental SQLite storage

See the detailed 1.0.0 release notes at
  http://librdf.org/RELEASE.html#rel1_0_0
for full information on all the changes.

Redland 1.0.0 was tested as working out-of-the-box (configure; make;
make check) with the following systems:

    alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu - Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on Alpha
    i386-pc-solaris2.9          - Sun Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9) on x86
    i386-unknown-freebsd4.10    - FreeBSD 4.10 on x86
    i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.6.1 - NetBSD 1.6.1 on x86
    i386-unknown-openbsd3.4     - OpenBSD 3.4 on x86
    i686-pc-linux-gnu           - Debian GNU/Linux unstable on x86
    i686-pc-linux-gnu           - Redhat Linux Fedora Core 3 on x86
    powerpc-apple-darwin5.5     - Apple OSX 10.2.5 on powerpc
    powerpc-apple-darwin7.7.0   - Apple OSX 10.3.7 on PowerPC
    sparc-sun-solaris2.9        - Sun Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9) on sparc
    x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu    - Redhat GNU/Linux Fedora Core 3 on
AMD64


The release consists of the full sources, RPM binaries and source RPM
packages for RedHat Linux Fedora Core 3.
These are also available from the Redland SourceForge mirror site at
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/librdf/
Debian packages are made available after release and in due course
will be in the standard Debian unstable archive.

The main web site lets you browse and check out the latest version of
the sources in CVS and use Redland in various demos.

I post updates about Redland, Raptor and Rasqal to the redland-dev
list which is one of the lists you can join from the list page at
  http://librdf.org/lists/

Dave

[1] http://librdf.org/bindings/
[2] http://librdf.org/rasqal/
[3] http://librdf.org/raptor/