DB2Triples - RDB2RDF Antidot implementation
LGPL Licence
https://github.com/antidot/db2triples
http://www.antidot.net

References : W3C Working Drafts 24 March 2011
- R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language (http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-r2rml-20110324/)
- A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF (http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdb-direct-mapping-20110324/)


Using the library
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** Getting the jar **

The last version of the jar is available to download on the github repository,
using the "Downloads" button:

https://github.com/antidot/db2triples/

** Needed dependency **

OpenRdf Sesame > 2.5.x - http://www.openrdf.org/
Commons-cli > 1.2 - http://commons.apache.org/cli/
Commons-logging > 1.1.1 - http://commons.apache.org/logging/
MySQL Connector > 5.1.15 - http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ 

** Command line **

According your classpath has the links to all the preceding jars and the 
"db2triples-<version number>.jar", you can launch the lib as follow :

- To call DirectMapping :
java antidot.dm.main.DirectMapping

- To call R2RML :
java antidot.r2rml.main.R2RML


Building your own jar
=====================

To build DB2Triples jar, you need to use Maven (http://maven.apache.org/)
which will provide to you all the necessary package to compile. The classical
way is the command:

mvn package

This will provide a file "db2triples-<version number>.jar" in the "target"
directory according to default configuration of Maven.


Execute the jar
===============

You can also compile and execute directly the jar from Maven build.
This operation requires to copy dependencies into working folder.

Use following commands :

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

java -cp target/dependency/*.jar:target/db2triples-<version number>.jar <main function>


Contacts
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Lead developer : Julien Homo - [email protected]
Maven packaging, Git admin : Laurent Mazuel - [email protected]