URIBurner.com

How Do I Use It?

Web Users & User Agents

Methods of exploiting URIBurner's services from your browser include:

Bookmarklet

Simply drag the following bookmarklet links to your browser's bookmarks toolbar:

Page Metadata (default: XHTML with embedded RDFa)

Browser URL input

To dereference the description of a Web-addressable resource via your browser simply type in one of the following URL patterns:

HTML - http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>
RDF - http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/data/<format>/<URLscheme>/<hostname></localpart> where format is one of xml, n3, nt or ttl

Examples

About: Bob Marley -- XHTML+RDFa based re-presentation from the BBC Music Data Space
About: Andreesen Horowitz -- XHTML+RDFa based re-presentation

OpenLink Data Explorer Extension for Firefox

Simply go to the OpenLink Data Explorer Home Page, download the extension, and then whenever you encounter a page of interest, use the main or context-menu options labeled "Describe Page" or "View Linked Data" to obtain Web addressable resource descriptions in HTML or RDF.

Alternatively, use the following bookmarklet:

Metadata Browser

Web Publishers

Simply include the following in the <head/> section of your (X)HTML page (static or dynamically generated):

<link rel="meta"
title="RDF Model-based Metadata in your desired format 
(e.g. xhtml, n3, turtle, rdf/xml etc)."
type="[required mimetype]"
href="http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>"
/>

Web Application Developers

Using your host operating system of development language embedded variants of cURL, you can exercise all the de-referencable proxy/wrapper URIs generated by this service, along the following lines:

Notation 3 (N3):

curl -I -H "Accept: text/n3" http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>
curl http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/data/n3/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>

Turtle:

curl -I -H "Accept: text/turtle" http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>
curl http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/data/ttl/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>

RDF/XML:

curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>
curl http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/data/xml/<URLscheme>/<hostname>/<localpart>

What is it?

A simple but powerful service that delivers RDF-based structured descriptions of Web addressable resources (documents or real world objects) in a variety of formats through Generic HTTP URIs.

The underlying technology is Virtuoso's Sponger, which takes an existing Web-accessible resource (webpage, media) and generates an RDF graph of its metadata using existing well-known ontologies as well as site-specific knowledge. URIBurner then re-presents this data as either a new HTML webpage, or directly as RDF in a variety of serializations (RDF/XML, text/n3, turtle, JSON).

Why is it important?

It provides an unobtrusive solution for creating, discovering, meshing, and sharing structured linked data sources exposed via the Web.

Search, Find, and Querying Linked Data

Linked data RDF may be queried using the SPARQL query language, by simply pointing your browser at either http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/sparql or http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/isparql and then entering the URL of interest into the Graph URL Field.