Introduction

This project is for plugins for jQuery that enable you to generate and manipulate RDF within web pages. There are two main aims of this project:

• to provide a way of querying and manipulating RDF triples within Javascript that is as intuitive as jQuery is for querying and manipulating a DOM
• to provide a way of gleaning RDF from elements within a web page, whether that RDF is represented as RDFa or with a microformat.

If you want to get an idea of what rdfQuery can help you with read this description of using rdfQuery for progressive enhancement of web pages and take a look at the markup demo that it describes.

The Plugins

Processing RDF embedded within web pages involves using a large number of other technologies that aren't particularly well supported in Javascript or jQuery. Some of these plugins may be useful even if you're not using RDF. The plugins are:

• jquery.uri.js for parsing and resolving URIs
• jquery.xmlns.js for resolving namespaces within HTML pages
• jquery.datatype.js for defining and validating values of different datatypes
• jquery.curie.js for processing CURIEs
• jquery.rdf.js for storing and querying RDF triples
• jquery.rdfa.js for generating RDF triples from RDFa
• jquery.rules.js for defining rules and reasoning over databanks