Scardf is an API in Scala providing a DSL for writing, traversing and querying RDF graphs. Implemented as a façade to Jena, an RDF programming framework for Java. So instead of writing something like this:

Model model = ModelFactory.createDefaultModel();
Resource johnSmith = model.createResource( "http://somewhere/JohnSmith" )
  .addProperty( N,
    model.createResource()
      .addProperty( Given, "John" )
      .addProperty( Family, "Smith" ) );

in Scala you can write like this:

implicit val model = new Model withPrefix "http://somewhere/"
val johnSmith = Res( "JohnSmith" ) state( N -> Anon( Given -> "John", Family -> "Smith" ) )

For more examples of use, take a look at the Overview and other wiki pages.

New API¶

In the redesigned API, graphs can be written in a shorter and more functional style. Coming soon.

val graph = Graph.build( johnSmith -N-> Branch( Given -> "John", Family -> "Smith" ) ) )