Show HN: Knowledge Graph Browser in a single executable

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2 years ago

A Semantic Web knowledge graph consists of RDF resources identified by URLs which you ideally host somewhere so users can enter the URL of an entity, like https://dbpedia.org/resource/Leipzig, in a browser and get a human-readable representation of the resource.

Normally you need a separate SPARQL endpoint (kind of a graph database) and then connect your RDF browser to that, but that is wasteful when you have a small knowledge base, and when the SPARQL endpoint is down due to overload, then you can't access your resources anymore.

To solve this I made RickView (for "RDF/Rust quick viewer"), a single binary that holds a knowledge graph in memory and acts as a web server for RDF resources.

Here are some RDF knowledge graphs you can browse that are served by RickView:

- <https://www.snik.eu/ontology/bb>

- <https://hitontology.eu/ontology/>

- <https://annosaxfdm.de/ontology/>

- <https://linkedspending.aksw.org/>