Silk Link Discovery Framework

Silk is an open source framework for integrating heterogeneous data sources. The primary uses cases of Silk include:

• Generating links between related data items within different Linked Data sources.
• Linked Data publishers can use Silk to set RDF links from their data sources to other data sources on the Web.
• Applying data transformations to structured data sources.

General information about Silk can be found on the official website.

Documentation

Community documentation is maintained in the doc folder.

Requirements

Local build

• JDK 21
• Simple Build Tool (sbt)
• Yarn for React/JavaScript build pipeline (e.g. ^1.22.0)
• Node (version >=20)

sbt needs to be installed on the system. See sbt download for instructions.

docker based build

• docker (version >=17.05-xx)

Running the Silk Workbench

• Execute: sbt "project workbench" run
• In your browser, navigate to ‘http://localhost:9000’

Running the Silk Workbench as docker container

• Build…