The W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP) specification describes a set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using the RDF data model. Fedora 4 implements the LDP specification for create, read, update and delete (CRUD) operations, allowing HTTP, REST, and linked data clients to make requests to Fedora 4. |
The LDP Working Group has published several documents of interest:
The following is a list of the salient ways Fedora 4 supports LDP:
The main LDP-related implementation resides in the fcrepo-kernel and fcrepo-kernel-impl modules. Transforms are provided by the Apache Marmotta LDPath library.