Linked Media Framework, Release 2.2.0
The Linked Media Framework (LMF) is a Linked Data Server with advanced functionalities like transparent Linked Data caching, querying, reasoning and versioning and has now been extended to a complete Linked Data Publishing suite that you can use for a number of frequent tasks:
- Linked Data Publishing of RDF or legacy data
- Semantic Search over your own data
- SKOS Thesaurus editing and content interlinking
For this purpose, the LMF Standalone Installation offers a combined and pre-configured installer for LMF Core, Google Refine and Apache Stanbol that simplifies the interaction between these components. Publishing Linked Data is made very easy with our framework.
With its built-in data management tools, we consider the LMF particularly useful for “casual” Linked Data users who want to publish small to medium-sized datasets (up to a few hundred million triples), e.g. in the Open Government or Linked Enterprise area. Another common use case is building small Linked Data applications combining local data with Web data.
Other scenarios (e.g. with custom legacy->RDF converters) can easily be implemented on top of the LMF by building custom projects that build upon the LMF modules. See the documentation on the website to learn how this can be achieved.
List of Major Changes since 2.0
- Apache Stanbol integration for content enhancement and interlinking
- Google Refine integration for data management and Linked Data publishing
- Semantic Search UI Editor for quickly building Semantic Search Interfaces
- SKOSjs Editor to build SKOS thesauruses (uses SPARQL Query/Update)
- improved user and security management
- native SPARQL implementation mapping queries directly to SQL
- improved performance for big datasets (imports, querying)
- integrated book demo to show Semantic Search configuration
LMF Demos (including some who show the “media” aspect) can be found at http://labs.newmedialab.at.
Quote François-Paul Servant, Renault:
“You cannot imagine how happy I’ve been to see such a great and neat demo. You know, I’ve been a long time believer in SW, but I was beginning to give up hope on getting well polished tools – useful things that work and look good. This demo changed my mind. Thanks! I can’t wait to have LMF installed on my machine and use it!”
