GraphQL + OWL: An “Ontologized” GraphQL Interface

Introduction This article describes a proposal for a GraphQL OWL-compliant interface, including queries and mutations. Instead of dealing with abstract OWL concepts, we reference a popular ontology, BIBFRAME, used in structuring bibliographic descriptions. We will go through a brief synthetic overview of GraphQL and BIBFRAME and then describe the proposal. Note the article has nothing to do […]
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This article describes a design of a mediation layer that implements a hybrid search API through GraphQL.
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The example uses IntelliJ but it is valid for any IDE.
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