Chapter 9. Callimachus: a Linked Data management system
This chapter covers
- An introduction to the Callimachus Project
- Getting started with Callimachus
- Using HTML templates to create web pages
- Creating and editing RDF data using the Callimachus template system
- Creating a web application with Callimachus
This chapter will bring together much of what you learned from the previous chapters. At this point in the book, you’re ready to build a web app using Linked Data. Having a platform for Linked Data development will make your work easier and faster. This chapter will introduce you to the Callimachus Project. We’ll show you how to get started with Callimachus and how to use it to build web applications using Linked Data.
The project team calls Callimachus a Linked Data management system, but it might be better thought of as an application server for Linked Data. Callimachus is open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license. Callimachus provides browser-based development tools to easily create web applications using RDF data.
Callimachus has several major features: