LLDtools

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Tools for developers

• RDF Development Frameworks
  • Jena – A Semantic Web Framework for Java
    • Report
    • ARQ - A SPARQL Processor for Jena
    • TDB - A SPARQL Database for Jena
    • Joseki - A SPARQL Server for Jena
    • Fuseki - A SPARQL Server for Jena
• Linked Data ("Cool URI") front-ends
  • Pubby - A Linked Data Frontend for SPARQL Endpoints
  • D2R Server - Publishing Relational Databases on the Semantic Web
  • oclcsrw - Publishing SRU Databases on the Semantic Web
• OWL Reasoners
  • Pellet: OWL 2 Reasoner for Java
• JSON representation
  • TF-JSON - RDF Working Group

RDF Visualization

• DBpedia User Script
• Sindice Web Data Inspector
• LodLive RDF Graph Browser

Developer Web services

• Validation
  • W3C RDF Validation Service
  • WonderWeb OWL Ontology Validator
• OWL ontology browsers
  • (Manchester) Ontology Browser
  • OwlSight
  • Live OWL Documentation Environment (LODE)
  • OWLDoc
  • Tones Ontology Browser
  • Ontology Browser
• RDF Converters
  • (Mindswap) RDF Converter
• Data cleanup utilities
  • Google Refine
  • Google Refine Reconciliation Service API
  • Silk Framework (link discovery)

Tools for ontology developers

• The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition System
• Open Metadata Registry
• Snoogle
• Swoogle

Tools for concept scheme developers

• FAO vocBench

Tools for catalogers

• Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE)
  • (mentioned http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Presentations)
• RDA Toolkit
  • (I'm not sure this is a "tool" in our sense of the meaning)(It could be if it would allow data creation using RDA in RDF)

Tools for end users (e.g. visualization)

• The Linking Open Data cloud diagram
• LinkSailor

Links to other lists of tools

• Tools - Semantic Web Standards
• Tools | Linked Data - Connect Distributed Data across the Web
• (Scroll to the "Tools" section)
• The Sweet Compendium of Ontology Building Tools
• Linked data tools

Issues

Scalability is an issue. NoSQL combined with computer clusters and RDF/SPARQL look promising for the near future.

• http://blog.datagraph.org/2010/04/rdf-nosql-diff
• http://decentralyze.com/2010/03/09/rdf-meets-nosql/
• http://webofdata.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/nosql-linked-data-processing/