RDF Triple Collector (RTC)                            A firefox extension for collecting RDF triples based on RDFa (v1.1)

1 introduction

RTC is an extension for Firefox, it aims at extracting triples(RDFa conforming) from web pages, uploading triples to server and querying data using SPARQL. The extraction of triples is based on Green Turtle and triples uploading and querying are based on Corese/KGRAM.
Main features:

• Extract RDF triples
• Upload data to server
• SPARQL query
  
• Save data to file

2 INstallation

• This extension only supports Mozila Firefox brwoser;
• Download the extension from [1.1b, help];
• Follow the extension installation steps to install the extension and restart the browser;
• In order to upload and query data, you need to download corese server and start it.
  

3 Instructions

A panel like follows should show when you open a new page(try Dbpedia:sophia antipolis). If there are triples detected on this page, an icon will appear in address bar and triples will be listed in the left-side table. You can close the panel by clicking button [Close] and reopen the panel by clicking the icon in address bar or via menu (tools/[RDF Triple Collector]).

• By clicking (or use key up & down) on one row of triples, the details will display in the right-bottom text area;
• The triples in the list can be download to file in format of turtle (.ttl);
• Every time you switch between different tabs, the page will be reloaded, the results in the panel alwalys comforms to current browsing page. Use [Reload] button to re-extract triples on current page.
  
• If the server has been started:

• The information about each operation is shown on the title bar in blue.
• The server address can be changed, but only support corese endpoint/ldp at time being.