RAMP Shapes: Declarative RDF - ADT Mapping

Abstract

With the broad availability of Linked Data efficient and convenient programmatic access to semantic graph data within programming languages is important for using the data in applications. To this end, we present RAMP (RDF Algebraic Data Type Mapping), a type construction language, specification and an implementation of mapping operations between RDF graphs and structured data types. RAMP is based on algebraic data types, and aims to overcome limitations of existing approaches for example regarding the set of supported language constructs, or the ability to generalize over a different programming languages. At the same time, RAMP focuses on providing computationally efficient mapping operations.