#Welcome to the Sesame code repository#

Sesame is an extensible Java framework for storing, querying and inferencing for RDF. It can be deployed as a web server or used as a Java library. Features include several query languages (SeRQL and SPARQL), inferencing support, and RAM, disk, or RDBMS storage. Additionally, the central APIs of Sesame are storage-independent and are supported by many third-party RDF database vendors.

Report any issues in the OpenRDF JIRA issue tracker.

More information about Sesame can be found at openRDF.org.

##Acknowledgements##

No Open Source project can exist without a community to support it. We therefore gratefully list the people and organizations at the heart of the OpenRDF community.

###Atlassian Support###

Atlassian have generously contributed an Open Source license for us to use their awesome JIRA platform as our issue tracker.

###Organizations contributing to Sesame###

In no particular order, these companies and organizations have all contributed to Sesame development:

• Aduna
• Stichting NLnet
• Ontotext
• Fluid Operations
• 3 Round Stones
• Clark & Parsia
• Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

###Individual Developers###

The following people are currently involved as developers of Sesame, or have been in the past (listed in no particular order): Arjohn Kampman, Jeen Broekstra, James Leigh, Herko ter Horst, David Huynh, Peter Mika, Peter Ansell, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Leo Saurmann, Sebastian Weber, Michael Grove, Dale Visser.

In addition, we want to gratefully acknowledge all members of the Sesame community who have come up with new ideas, bug reports, and patches, and so have helped carry this project forward. Cheers!

###Third party software###

This product includes software developed by The Apache Software Foundation. (License)

This product includes software developed by the JUnit project. (License)

Source code for included Open Source software is available from the respective websites of the copyright holders of the included software.

##Copyright and License##

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