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AE RDF User Manual ​

A fast, browser-only explorer for any RDF dataset behind a SPARQL endpoint. Connect, see what types of things exist, drill into a type's instances, open any resource, and follow its links, all live, all in your browser. No backend, no precomputed indexes, no data leaves your machine.

Try it now: Open AE RDF in your browser, no installation required.

CORDIS RDF Browser — the type sidebar with counts, and an open Organisation resource showing attributes, relationships, and deeply embedded site / address / coordinates

Above — a CORDIS organisation: the Types sidebar (left) for navigating the dataset, the resource's attributes and clickable relationships, and nested value objects inlined in place (site → postal address → coordinates). See this view live →

Live queries only — every count, list, facet, resource view, and incoming-link lookup you see below runs as a query against your endpoint, computed the moment you ask for it.

See it in action ​

Browse by type
The Types sidebar tree: subclasses and value objects nest under their parent, each with a live instance count.
See it live →		Faceted browsing
Narrow a type by its values, ranges, and dates (even values a hop away), with live counts.
See it live →
The CORDIS Types sidebar tree with Project and Result pinned, Result expanded to its subclasses, and per-type instance countsThe Filters rail narrowing CORDIS organisations by type, role, and country with live counts
Rich values
Media inline, DOI citation cards, and WKT geometry as maps.
See it live →		Deep embeds
Value objects inlined with their own properties — a Grant's start date, end date, and beneficiary shown in place, nested as deep as the data goes.
See it live →
A plazi Figure resource showing a DOI citation card and an inline media imageThe Relationships section of a CORDIS project: Has acronym as a labeled Acronym, Has total cost as a MonetaryAmount, Has euro sci voc classification linking a Concept, and Is funded by an embedded Grant showing its start date, end date, and beneficiary
Walk the graph backwards
See what points at a resource — incoming links grouped by predicate, with blank-node restrictions inlined.
See it live →		SPARQL panel
A read-only SELECT / ASK console with named tabs, auto-LIMIT, paginated results, and portable prefixed queries.
The Referenced by section on a plazi Figure: two incoming links grouped by inverse predicate, 'Cites' a Treatment and 'Has part' a journal article with an inline DOI citation cardThe SPARQL panel with named tabs, a property-path SELECT over CORDIS organisations, and a paginated results table

Want your endpoint on the list? If you maintain a public SPARQL endpoint and would like it included as a suggested endpoint, open an issue on GitHub.

Getting Started ​

AE RDF connects directly to SPARQL endpoints from your browser — the endpoint must allow browser access (CORS).

Quick Start ​

  1. Open the endpoint menu in the header and pick an endpoint. (In the standalone / authoring build you can also Add endpoint for a custom URL, see The Endpoint Manager.)
  2. Once connected, the Types sidebar lists every rdf:type in the dataset with an instance count.
  3. Click a type to see its instances, then click an instance to open it.
  4. Or paste any resource URI into the bar at the top and press Go.

On a deployed instance the endpoints come from the app's bundled configuration; AE SKOS and AE RDF each ship their own, so the endpoint lists are not shared between the tools.

User Guide ​

  1. Endpoints — Choosing and switching endpoints (adding your own is in the Configuration Guide)
  2. Browsing — Types and instance lists
  3. Resource view — Attributes, relationships, and incoming links
  4. Faceted browsing — Filter a type by its values, ranges, and dates
  5. SPARQL panel — The read-only query console
  6. Rich values — Media, DOIs, and geometry maps
  7. Graphs — How AE RDF shows which named graph each fact lives in
  8. Shareable URLs — Deep-linking, bookmarking, and cross-dataset switching
  9. Settings — Display, sidebar, results, and authoring preferences
  10. Troubleshooting — CORS, empty results, slow queries

Administration ​

  • Configuration Guide — Authoring mode, per-type configuration, graph behaviour, and exporting a deployment config
  • Deployment & Releases — GitHub Pages variants and the ERA standalone release process

AE RDF is part of the Augmented Semantics toolkit by Cognizone.