Welcome to my Prototype

The prototype application demonstrates application of semantic web technologies, RDF and SPARQL, for managing information on software products and assisting in their selection. Software products information is described using RDF/XML format. The RDF is a well-structured text, which can be read by people and machine-processed using SPARQL queries. This helps to retrieve needed information about software products in accord to user requests. The prototype does:

• store information about software products in MySQL relational database;
• help to create, update and delete information about software products;
• output software records in RDF format for their consumption by automated agents;
• provide an interface to ARC2 triple store for storing software data;
• map user requests to SPARQL queries;
• realise MCDM algorithm for software products selection;
• use ARC2 library for querying generated RDF resources.

The current version does not support authentication and authorisation features, which were about of scope of the dissertation project. The prototype is created for demonstrating the proposed approach. Please read User Guide for more information.