RDFLib/rdflib

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

RDFLib is a pure Python library for working with RDF (Resource Description Framework), providing parsers and serializers for formats like RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, N-Quads, and JSON-LD. It includes a Graph interface with pluggable store backends and a full SPARQL 1.1 query and update implementation.

Use cases

• parse and serialize RDF data in Turtle, RDF/XML, JSON-LD, or N-Triples
• run SPARQL queries against RDF graphs in Python
• build and manipulate RDF graphs programmatically
• query remote SPARQL endpoints
• convert linked data between RDF serialization formats
• work with ontologies and semantic web data
• store RDF triples in memory or on disk

When to choose

• you need to parse, serialize, or query RDF in Python
• you want a pure-Python solution with no native dependencies
• you need SPARQL 1.1 query and update support
• you're building semantic web, linked data, or knowledge graph tooling

When to avoid

• you need extremely high-performance triple stores at scale (consider a dedicated graph database)
• you want a standalone RDF database server rather than an embedded library
• you need SHACL validation or OWL reasoning (use the companion pySHACL or OWL-RL packages)

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser serialization search-engine developer-tools databases developer-tools python cross-platform rdf sparql turtle -ld ntriples nquads rdf-xml graph linked-data semantic-web ontology natural-language-processing

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