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Technologies

Operating System

• NixOS

Data Management System

• Small distributed relational databases: PostgreSQL + PostGIS
• Mapping of relational data to RDF:
  • 2 W3C recommandations from the RDB2RDF Working Group:
    1. Direct Mapping: RDB to RDF Mapping
    2. R2RML: RDB to RDF Markup Language
  • R2R implementations:
    • D2RQ (Java)
    • OpenLink Virtuoso RDF Views [C]
    • R2D2 [PHP]
    • RDF4J [aka Sesame] + r2rml-api-rdf4j-bridge [Java]
    • Allegrograph [Common Lisp]
    • MarkLogic [C++]
• SPARQL endpoint to query the data
  • OpenLink Virtuoso triplestore [C]

Web Server

• Apache HTTP Server
• NGINX

Back end

• Python (Django)
• Server-side JavaScript (NodeJS + MongoDB)
• PHP framework (Symfony or CakePHP)
• Java (JSF)

Front end

• HTML5
• CSS3 framework (Bulma) + CSS preprocessor (SASS/LESS)
• JavaScript + jQuery
• Slippy Map (OpenLayers3)
• Dynamic tables (Datatables)
• Datepicker (jQuery UI)
• Iconset (FontAwesome)

Dataviz

• D3
• ElasticSearch + Kibana
• Jupyter

Continuous Integration

• Build automation tools
  • Apache Maven
  • Apache Ant
  • Gradle
  • Bower
• CI Server
  • Jenkins
  • Travis
  • Buildbot
  • Strider
  • Gitlab CI
  • TeamCity