#  $Id: Service.pod,v 1.1 2001/01/21 20:58:39 aigan Exp $  -*-perl-*-

=head1 NAME

RDF::Service - RDF API with DBI and other backends

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  use RDF::Service;


  my $ns   = "http://our.org/namespace/";       # Private namespace
  my $rdf  = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
  my $rdfs = "http://uxn.nu/rdf/2000-2001/09/19/local-schema#";

  my $s = new RDF::Service( $ns."S1" );  # Start session S1

  # Create a new resource of type Property
  #
  my $my_prop = $s->get($ns."name")->set(
      [ $rdf."Property" ],
      {
          $rdfs."domain" => [ $ns."Person" ],
          $rdfs."range"  => [ $rdfs."Literal" ],
      } );

  # Get the domain of ns:name, as a scalar
  #
  my $domain = $s->get($ns."name")->
                   arc_obj($rdfs."domain")->
                   li->uri;

=head1 PUBLIC METHODS

=head2 new($uristr)

Returns a L<RDF::Service::Context> object, representing the session.

If C<$uristr> is not supplied, a URI for the resoruce will be
generated.

  MODEL  = ls:base_model
  WMODEL = $self

=head1 AUTHOR

Jonas Liljegren   E<lt>jonas@paranormal.seE<gt>

  http://jonas.liljegren.org/myself/en/

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Jonas Liljegren.  All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

=head1 SUPPORT

Comments and bug reports should go to rdf@uxn.nu.

=head1 CREDITS

Stefan Andersson <stefan@uxn.nu>

=head1 SEE ALSO

=for HTML <a href="../../wraf.html">Wraf</a>

=for HTML <a href="../../context.html">Context objects</a>

=for HTML <a href="../../session.html">Sessions</a>

L<RDF::Service::Resource>

L<RDF::Service::Context>

L<RDF::Service::Interface>