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<h1>Welcome to ClioPatria, the SWI-Prolog Semantic Web Server</h1>

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This server provides a Web frontend to the <a
href="http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/package/semweb.html">SWI-Prolog SemWeb
package</a> supporting both the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">SPARQL</a> and <a href="http://rdf4j.org/">Sesame SeRQL</a>
query language.

<h4>About this server</h4>

This server is built on top of the SWI-Prolog Web infrastructure <a
href="http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/publications/TPLP-plweb.pdf">
(PDF)</a>. It provides a web front-end to the SWI-Prolog Semantic Web
libraries <a
href="http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/publications/iswc-03.pdf">
(PDF)</a>. Features:

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  <li>Fast in-memory RDF triple store, <b>scalable</b> to approx.
      15 million triples on 32-bit and
      virtually unlimited on 64-bit hardware.
  <li><b>Persistent</b> store using journal files
  <li>Supports <b>SPARQL</b> and SeRQL 1.2 HTTP protocol for remote access
  <li><b>Full text search:</b> prefixes of literals, words appearing in literals,
  stemming
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<h4>Further information and contact</h4>

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  <li><a href="http://www.swi-prolog.org/">SWI-Prolog site</a> and
      <a href="http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/index.html">manual</a>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">SPARQL Documentation</a>
  <li><a href="http://rdf4j.org/">Sesame and SeRQL site</a>
  <li><a href="http://mailman.few.vu.nl/mailman/listinfo/cliopatria-list">ClioPatria mailinglist</a>
  <li><a href="http://www.swi-prolog.org/Mailinglist.html">SWI-Prolog mailinglist</a>
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