Introduction

Welcome to the Open Semantic Framework developers' portal. The Open Semantic Framework is composed of multiple different projects, all in open source. Each of these projects can be used in isolation, with the exception of conStruct (which needs a running structWSF instance). Here is the listing of these projects:

structWSF — a platform-independent Web services framework for RDF data
conStruct — a matching structured content system built to leverage the Drupal CMS
Semantic Components —data visualization, display and manipulation widgets for OSF
irON Parsers — parsers for the different irON formats.

Installing the Open Semantic Framework

Get started by
installing the Open Semantic Framework stack
using the OSF Installer application

Get Involved

You can help the project in many ways. You can get involved by reporting bugs, fixing bugs, reviewing code, proposing new features, or by creating new ones. Pick what suits your skills best; all contributions are much appreciated by the rest of the community.

The core communication channel used by the community is the OSF Mailing List. It is where most interaction between community members takes place.

Development Sites & Tools

Development Discussion

All proposals for new features and code changes are discussed in this forum. It is also used to help people with debugging issues they may experience with their OSF instance.

Issue Trackers

If you find a bug, or want to suggest a new feature for any Open Semantic Framework project, this is the place to report it. If you're not sure if the behavior you found is really a bug, try asking for help on the Mailing List first.

Source Codes

The source codes for Open Semantic Framework projects are hosted on multiple different SVN and Git servers. For all projects, the trunk branch will always have the latest version of the software, with all release versions tagged by number.

Coding Guidelines

The coding guidelines tells you how you can contribute your code, what are the coding style conventions, etc.

Documentation

Read about how the different projects work. All documentation related to the OSF projects, methodologies and processes is accessible on the TechWiki documentation portal.