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Apache Any23 - Introduction

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Introduction to Apache Any23

* Library

<<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:

* {{{http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/}RDF/XML}}, {{{http://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/turtle/}Turtle}}, {{{http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3}Notation 3}}

* {{{http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/}RDFa}} with {{{http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-core-20100422/#scoping-of-prefix-mappings}RDFa1.1 prefix mechanism}}

* {{{http://microformats.org/}Microformats1}} and {{{http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats-2}Microformats2}}: hAdr, hCard, hCalendar, hEntry, hEvent, hGeo, hItem, hListing, hProduct, hProduct, hRecipie, hResume, hReview, License, Species, XFN, etc

* {{{http://json-ld.org/}JSON-LD}}: JSON for Linking Data. a lightweight Linked Data format based on the already successful JSON format and provides a way to help JSON data interoperate at Web-scale.

* {{{http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/}HTML5 Microdata}}: (such as {{{http://schema.org}Schema.org}})

* {{{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt}CSV}}: Comma Separated Values with separator autodetection.

* Vocabularies: Extraction support for {{{http://dublincore.org/}Dublin Core Terms}}, {{{http://www.w3.org/wiki/DescriptionOfACareerVocabulary}Description of a Career}}, {{{https://github.com/edumbill/doap/wiki}Description Of A Project}}, {{{http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/}Friend Of A Friend}}, {{{http://www.geonames.org/ontology/}GEO Names}}, {{{http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/icaltzd#}ICAL}}, {{{https://github.com/RinkeHoekstra/lkif-core}lkif-core}}, {{{http://ogp.me/}Open Graph Protocol}}, {{{http://purl.org/ontology/po/}BBC Programmes Ontology}}, {{{http://vocab.org/review/terms.html}RDF Review Vocabulary}}, {{{http://schema.org/}schema.org}}, {{{http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns}VCard}}, {{{http://purl.org/ontology/wo/}BBC Wildlife Ontology}} and {{{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab/}XHTML}}... and more!

* {{{http://www.yaml.org/}YAML}}: human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.

* Additionally, as of 2.1 Any23 provides functionality to extract triples using the {{{https://github.com/allenai/openie-standalone}Open Information Extraction (Open IE) system}}. The Open IE system runs over sentences and creates extractions that represent relations in text, in the case of Any23, this results in triples.

A detailed description of available extractors is {{{./extractors.html}here}}.

<<Apache Any23>> is written in Java and licensed under the {{{https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0}Apache License v2.0}}.

<<Apache 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.

* As online service API available at {{{http://any23.org/}any23.org}}.

You can <<download>> the latest release from our {{{./download.html}Apache Mirrors}}.

Previous versions are available from the {{{http://archive.apache.org/dist/any23/}Apache Archives site}}.

* Documentation Content

{{{./index.html}Introduction}}: this page.

{{{./install.html}Install}}: how to install <<Apache Any23>> library and service.

{{{./getting-started.html} Getting Started}}: start using <<Apache Any23>> command-line tools.

{{{./supported-formats.html}Supported Formats}}: complete list of <<Semantic Web>> formats supported by <<Apache Any23>>.

{{{./configuration.html}Configuration}}: learn how to change default library and service configuration.

{{{./service.html}REST Service}}: discover how to use the <<Apache Any23 REST Service>>.

{{{./any23-plugins.html}Plugins}}: read how to install and configure the <<Apache Any23>> plugins.

{{{./developers.html}Developers}}: understand the <<Apache Any23>> code internals,

how to write plugins, fixing rules and customize the code.

* Community

Questions, comments? Get in touch on the {{{./mail-lists.html}mailing lists}}!

Bugs, feature requests, patches? Please submit to the {{{https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ANY23}issue tracker}}.

You can access the source through Git, see the {{{./install.html}Installation Guide}} for details.