Introduction to 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:

A detailed description of available extractors is here.

Any23 is used in major Web of Data applications such as sindice.com and sig.ma. It is written in Java and licensed under the Apache License. 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 any23.org.

You can download the latest release from the download site at Google Code.

Documentation Content

Introduction: this page.

Install: how to install Any23 library and service.

Getting Started: start using Any23 command-line tools.

Supported Formats: complete list of Semantic Web formats supported by Any23.

Configuration: learn how to change default library and service configuration.

REST Service: discover how to use the Any23 REST Service.

Plugins: read how to install and configure the Any23 plugins.

Developers: understand the Any23 code internals, how to write plugins, fixing rules and customize the code.

Community

Questions, comments? Get in touch on the mailing list! Bugs, feature requests, patches? Please submit to the issue tracker. You can access the source through Subversion, see the Installation Guide for details.

Acknowledgements

The original code base comes from open-sourcing the "RDFizer" component of the Sindice search engine. The project is supported by DERI, NUI Galway, Web of Data - FBK and the OKKAM project (ICT-215032). Individual developers who have contributed to any23 include: Michele Catasta, Richard Cyganiak, Michele Mostarda, Davide Palmisano, Gabriele Renzi, Jürgen Umbrich.