Redland is a library that provides a high-level interface for rdf (resource description framework) implemented in an object-based api. it is modular and supports different rdf/xml parsers, storage mechanisms and other elements. redland is designed for applications developers to provide rdf support in their applications as well as for rdf developers to experiment with the technology.

this package includes the core file-based storages. to get database backed storages, the librdf-storage-postgresql, librdf-storage-mysql, librdf-storage-sqlite or librdf-storage-virtuoso packages should be installed.