OINK: Open Integration of Networked Knowledge

OINK is - on the surface - a browser for RDF data. OINK queries data in an RDF triple store, and renders it as XHTML pages (essentially, one page per each node in the graph, on demand). This allows one to view RDF (and OWL) data in a very clear, intuitive way (everyone knows how to browse). Loading multiple RDF documents into OINK's triple-store and viewing them all together offers a simple way to integrate data, ad hoc. All that OINK really knows is the RDF metamodel; it has no knowledge of any schemata, although the architecture allows "special" rendering of instances on a class-by-class basis. Because OINK is built on top of Wilbur, each triple, when visualized, also offers information about its provenance.

More information about OINK, for now, is available in this blog entry. OINK's DOAP profile is here.

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We are finalizing the first version of a complete rewrite of Wilbur and OINK in Python!

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SwapMe/OINK (last edited 2006-11-16 13:19:57 by OraLassila)