Keywords: RDF, Python, ORM, Pylons, bibliographic data.

This is an experimental project. Its aim is evaluating the feasibility of running a standard Python web framework (Pylons) on top of RDF-data/a triplestore. Focus:

• Robustness of the RDF-Python ORM;
• Managing RDF-data (versioning, inferencing, manipulation);
• Easy data-entry and conversion to other/syndication formats.

If succesfull, it will provide a serial (alerting) service for progressive periodicals and an article metadata index.

• Proof of concept works: RDF data is loaded in memory; mapped to python classes and navigated using Pylons & Genshi templates.
• Site-layout: XHTML, CSS, ...
• Dynamic data-entry forms (autocomplete with backend)

Reqs:

• Python (2.5 tested)
• RDFAlchemy (svn version tested)
• RDFlib
• Genshi
• Pylons

This should work:

$ svn checkout http://www.openvest.com/svn/public/rdfalchemy/trunk  rdfalchemy
$ cd rdfalchemy
$ python setup.py install #This will also install the correct verion of RDFlib
$ easy_install genshi
$ easy_install pylons

Then in the serialsservice-folder run:

$ paster serve --reload development.ini 

Browse to http://localhost:5000

• Bibliographic ontology Ontology used.
• Bruce d'Arcus personal site Similar project using RDFAlchemy + web.py; github repository