Introduction to OSF Web Services

OSF Web Service is the open source Web services framework used in this SemGov offering. OSF Web Service is a generally RESTful middleware layer that provides the bridge between existing content and structure and content management systems and available indexing engines and RDF data stores.

OSF Web Service also provides a platform-independent means for distributed collaboration via an innovative dataset access paradigm. It is designed to be expanded and is available under Apache2 license.

Available documentation includes:


 * Installation Guide
 * Overview
 * OSF Web Service Architecture
 * Datasets and Access Rights
 * Endpoints Access
 * structXML, the OSF Web Service XML data structure
 * OSF Web Services Tutorial, also available in Web Service_WS_tutorial.pdf download as a PDF
 * OSF Web Service API and Web Services Documentation, with the specific services of:
 * Auth Registrar: Access
 * Auth Registrar: WS
 * Auth: Lister
 * Auth: Validator
 * Ontology: Create
 * Dataset: Create
 * Dataset: Read
 * Dataset: Update
 * Dataset: Delete
 * CRUD: Create
 * CRUD: Read
 * CRUD: Update
 * CRUD: Delete
 * Search
 * SPARQL
 * Converter: irJSON (import and export)
 * Converter: BibTeX (import and export)
 * Converter: TSV/CSV (import and export).