TopQuadrant Documentation

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Getting Started Guide (PDF) A tutorial to help you get familiar with the TopBraid Composer interface, the creation and editing of ontologies and SPARQL queries, file management and the use of imports, and the creation of OWL classes.
Application Development Quickstart Guide A tutorial introduction to creating and deploying applications using TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Ensemble, TopBraid Live, SPARQLMotion, and SPARQL Rules.
TopBraid Composer: Features Overview (PDF) A presentation showing the interface, features, and capabilities of TopBraid Composer.

Installation Guide A guide to configuring and installing TopBraid Live, including a section on LDAP configuration.
Administration Guide A guide to the web-based interface that lets you tune and control both the Personal and Enterprise editions of TBL.

Application Development and Reference Guide A guide and reference work to building and deploying TopBraid Ensemble applications.

User and Reference Guide The tutorial and reference guide for using TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net (EVN).
Screenshots of TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net (EVN) (pdf) An annotated introduction to the interface and features of EVN.
Using EVN Tagger TopBraid EVN's companion product for tagging content.
Enterprise Vocabulary Net Installation Guide A guide to configuring and installing the EVN Enterprise Server, including a section on LDAP configuration.
Enterprise Vocabulary Net Server Administration Guide A guide to the web-based interface that lets you tune and control the EVN server.

SPARQL Rules Tutorial An introduction to using SPARQL Rules to create and use your own functions, inferencing, constructors, constraints, and templates.
SPIN in Five Slides A quick introduction to what SPIN (SPARQL Rules) is and what it can do for you.

SPARQLMotion Tutorial (PDF) A tutorial introduction to TopBraid's visual scripting language and engine for semantic data processing.
Semantic Web Service in 5 Easy Steps (PDF) A short series of slides showing how you can use SPARQLMotion to create a Semantic Web service.
SPARQLMotion Getting Started Guide A brief tutorial showing how to create simple SPARQLMotion scripts that take advantage of a wide variety of SPARQLMotion modules.
Downloadable tutorial example: DBPediaCountryCapitals A tutorial in building a SPARQLMotion script that creates two web services: one that gets a list of all countries from DBPedia that have a defined capital, and another that displays the capital from a country name passed as an argument)
Downloadable tutorial example: NewsfeedCalaisMap A tutorial in building a SPARQLMotion script that reads business news from a New York Times news feed, extracts all countries mentioned in the news and displays them on a map, helped by the OpenCalais and GeoNames web services.

SPARQL Web Pages Overview A brief tutorial demonstrating some capabilities of SPARQL Web Pages.
SPARQL Web Pages - User Guide An introduction to the key elements of the SPARQL Web Pages (SWP) framework. SWP is an RDF-based language for describing user interfaces that render Semantic Web data.