Semantic web tools

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• Creating and maintaining RDF or OWL
• Preparing and maintaining SKOS vocabularies
• SPARQL and SHACL testing
• Python libraries
• Triple-stores and graph databases
• SKOS/RDF/OWL publishing platforms
• Full service SKOS/RDF platforms

Creating and maintaining RDF or OWL

• Visual Studio Code - text editor with syntax highlighting (and lots of integration …)
• TopBraid Composer - for RDF, SPARQL, SHACL - download
• Protege - for OWL ontologies - Protégé Desktop, WebProtégé
• JSON-LD Playground

Preparing and maintaining SKOS vocabularies

• SKOS Play! - convert Excel to SKOS
• Excel2rdf
• Excel2ldr
• Research Vocabularies Australia editor
• Maintain your SKOS with VocBench
• Clean your SKOS with Skosify
• SKOS quality control - qSKOS service

SPARQL and SHACL testing

• YASGUI - a SPARQL query editor and tester - Yasgui API Reference
• SHACL Playground

Python libraries

• rdfLib
• pySHACL

Triple-stores and graph databases

• AllegroGraph - RDFS++ reasoning triple-store
• AnzoGraph
• Eclipse rdf4j - formerly known as Sesame and OpenRDF
• GraphDB by Ontotext -
• Stardog - pure Java large scale triple-store
• Comparison of Triplestores

SKOS/RDF/OWL publishing platforms

• SkosMos - SkosMos at GitHub
• SISSVoc
• VocPrez
• Linked Data Registry
• pyLODE
• ELDA
• pyLDAPI
• BioPortal - research submissions in any domain

Full service SKOS/RDF platforms

• TopBraid EDG
• PoolParty