A NetAPI for the remote query and update of RDF models is an important piece in the growth of the semantic web. It allows application-level access to web published RDF in a manner thar scales from small models to large collections of information.

Joseki is an implementation of an experiemental WebAPI for the Jena RDF framework.  Query is implemented on HTTP GET.

The Joseki system comprises:

• A client API providing convenient access to the query operations of the RDF WebAPI protocol.

• An RDF server, which can run embedded in an application, as a standalone program, or as a web application inside a suitable application server. It provides the operations of query and update on models it hosts.

Joseki is an open source project. It's web site is:

http://www.joseki.org/