CubicWeb is a
free and open-source
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...
semantic
web application framework
A web framework (WF) or web application framework (WAF) is a software framework that is designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs. Web frameworks provide a standard way to build an ...
, licensed under the LGPL. It is written in
Python
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Snakes
* Pythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia
** ''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia
* Python (mythology), a mythical serpent
Computing
* Python (pro ...
.
It has been an open free software project since October 2008, but the project began in 2000 and was initially developed by Logilab for internal uses such as
intranet
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,
bug tracker
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Many bug tracking systems, such as those ...
and forge applications.
As of 2012, CubicWeb is being used in large-scale
semantic web and
linked open data
In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but r ...
applications and international corporations.
Concepts
The framework is entirely driven by a data model. Once the data model is defined, one gets a functional web application and can further customize the views (by default it provides a set of default views for each type of data).
A cube is a reusable component defining specific features. For example, a cub
forgeallows one to create one's own forge and the forge cube reuses the cubes comment, file, email, etc. Interesting general purpose cubes include dbpedia and openlibrary.
The framework has been translated to English, French, Spanish and German (April 2011).
Functions
* Semantic web: supports
OWL
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/
RDF
* Multi-source: supports RQL,
SQL,
LDAP
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,
Subversion
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and
Mercurial
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Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalability, d ...
RQL Relationship query language to ease data querying
* Migration tool: fits into agile development
* View selection principle: the engine selects the best view to fit the content to display according to the context
* Cubes library: a wide range of cubes are available on the forge
See also
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Jena
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Mulgara
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RDFLib
RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information. This library contains parsers/serializers for almost all of the known RDF serializations, such as RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, & JSON- ...
*
Sesame
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References
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External links
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CubicWeb project forgeCubicWeb blogOSCON 2010 presentation of CubicWebFrench Semantic Web ConferenceCubicWeb components in the Python Package Index (PyPI)paper at Extended Semantic Web Conference 2013
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