ApacheCon EU 2014

In the Java world there is an historical incompatibility issue between the two major RDF toolkits: Apache Jena and OpenRDF Sesame. But behind this effort there is a completely different approach than before. This library does not pretend to be a generic API wrapping those libraries, but a set of interfaces for the RDF 1.1 concepts that can be used to expose cores concepts using common Java interfaces. In the initial phase commons-rdf is focused on a subset of the core concepts defined by RDF 1.1 (URI/IRI, Blank Node, Literal, Triple, and Graph). In particular, Commons RDF aims to provide a type-safe, non-general API that covers RDF 1.1. In a future phase we may define interfaces for Datasets or Quads.

Counts in core contributors from both Jena and Sesame, But it will live or die on its own merits!

The working repository can be found at http://github.com/wikier/commons-rdf