any23

Anything To Triples (any23) is a library, a web service and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents. Currently it supports the following input formats:

  • RDF/XML, Turtle, Notation 3
  • RDFa
  • Microformats: Adr, Geo, hCalendar, hCard, hListing, hResume, hReview, License, XFN and Species

Any23 can be used in various ways:

  • As a library in Java applications that consume structured data from the Web.
  • As a command-line tool for extracting and converting between the supported formats.
  • There is a web service and API where you can try it at any23.org.
  • You can download the latest release from the download site at Google Code.

Category:
Data Conversion
Website:
http://any23.org/ 
Author(s):
Michele Catasta, Richard Cyganiak, Michele Mostarda, Davide Palmisano, Gabriele Renzi, Jürgen Umbrich 
Contact Email:
richard@cyganiak.de 
License:
Apache License, Version 2.0 
User Interface:
Plugin / Web Service / Command Line 
Programming Language(s):
Java 
Online Manual:
http://developers.any23.org/ 
Mailing List:
http://groups.google.com/group/any23-dev 

Documentation

Any23 is a command line tool made using the programming language Java. In order to use it, you will need to have a recent version of the Java environment installed on your machine. Java is available for download on the web site from Oracle. You will also need maven to build the software.

Installation procedure:

  • Download Any23 from its homepage and unpack it in a directory of your choice.
  • Any23 gets run by typing the command ./any23-core/bin/any23 from the directory in which you unpacked it. You need to execute that command once to have the software compiled.

Usage:

  1. To get the RDF content in a web page, type ./any23-core/bin/any23 followed by the adress of the page to fetch the content from. For instance: 
    ./any23-core/bin/any23 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amsterdam
./any23-core/bin/any23 http://librdf.org