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---++What's New

---+++2012-08-02: New VOS 6.1.6 Release

[[VOSNews][Virtuoso 6.1.6]] includes support for SPARQL 1.1 <code>BINDINGS</code>, <code>FILTER NOT 
EXIST</code>, and <code>SERVICE DESCRIPTION</code> clauses; <code>soundex</code> and <code>difference</code>; WebID protected endpoints; a
new RDB2RDF VAD package; and Sponger support for Wolfram|Alpha, FTP URLs, and output as
tab-separated values (TSV). ODS includes new API documentation; advanced ACLs
for SPARQL and services auth; support for Dropbox, Box.net, Google Drive, and Skydrive;
and CalDAV import. Fixes include ETag calculation; ODBC connection handle
error-handling; date-time conversion; rdf/xml IRI escaping; microdata namespace 
issues; and miscellaneous building and portability issues.

[[VOSDownload][Download it now!]]

---+++2012-03-22: Github

Virtuoso Open-Source development has moved to hosting at [[https://github.com/][GitHub]]. Developers who want to actively track progress of the Virtuoso source code and contribute bug fixes or enhancements to the project are cordially invited to [[https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource][join us there]]. To check out a local copy of Virtuoso, please see our [[VOSGIT][Git usage instructions]], [[VOSGitUsage][branching/tagging strategy]], and [[GitQuickstartTips][Git quickstart tips]].

---+++2012-03-16: New VOS 6.1.5 Release

[[VOSNews][Virtuoso 6.1.5]] includes improved support for SPARQL 1.1; improved result set handling of <code>DESCRIBE/CONSTRUCT</code> over ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET connections; a VAD package for DBpedia; co-reference resolution in the Sponger and new Cartridges for <nop>LinkedIn, <nop>AngelList, Klout, New York Times articles, <nop>StackOverflow; support for <nop>WebID 1.0, <nop>CalDAV, and <nop>CardDAV in ODS applications; minor build fixes.


---+++Previous announcements
[[VOSNews][Older news may be found here]].


---++Download, Build, and Use -- Get Started!

   * [[VOSIntro][Introduction]] and [[VOSHistory][History]]
   * [[VOSDownload][Download]] and [[VOSGIT][Git access]]
   * [[VOSLicense][Licensing Terms]]
   * [[VOSStart][Before you start]]
   * [[VOSBuild][Build Overview]]
      * Specific notes for Linux Distributions
         * [[VOSCentosNotes][CentOS]]
         * [[VOSDebianNotes][Debian GNU/Linux]]
         * [[VOSFedoraNotes][Fedora Core]]
         * [[VOSUbuntuNotes][Ubuntu]]
   * Getting Started:
      * [[VOSDB][Database]]: [[VOSAdminTour][Conductor]]
      * [[VOSUti][Utilities]] that come with Virtuoso
      * [[VOSTutorial][Tutorials]]
      * [[VOSUsageWindows][Windows-specific guide]]
   * [[VOSMailingLists][Mailing lists]]

---++How Do I...
   * Get Virtuoso?
      * [[VOSDownload][Download the Open Source Edition]]
      * [[http://download.openlinksw.com/virtwiz/][Download the Commercial Edition]]
   * Install Virtuoso?
      * [[VOSBuild][Install the Open Source Edition]]
      * [[http://support.openlinksw.com/supportweb/InstallationGuides][Install the Commercial Edition]]
   * Upgrade Virtuoso?
      * [[VOSUpgradeInstructions][Upgrade from Release 4.x or earlier, to Release 5.x]]
      * [[UpgradingToVOS610][Upgrade from Release 5.x through Release 6.0.x, to Release 6.1.0 and later]]
   * [[VirtRDFPerformanceTuning][Performance Tune the Virtuoso RDF Store?]]
   * [[VirtRDFInsert][Insert RDF Data into Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtRdfReplScenarios][Exploit Virtuoso's Replication Functionality re. Web based Solutions?]]
   * [[VirtGraphReplication][Perform RDF Graph Replication?]]
   * [[VirtBulkRDFLoader][Perform Bulk Loading of RDF Source Files into one or more Graph IRIs?]]
   * [[VirtCsvFileBulkLoader][Perform Bulk Loading of CSV Files?]]
   * [[VirtRDFDatasetDump][Perform Dump and Reload of RDF Graphs?]]
   * [[VirtRDFDumpNQuad][Perform Dump of RDF Graphs into NQuad dumps?]]
   * [[VirtRdfGraphDumpInfRule][Perform Dump of RDF Graph based on Inference Rules?]]
   * [[VirtDumpRDFViewGraphs][Perform Dump of RDFView Graph data?]]
   * [[VirtRemoveTriples][Remove all triples from Virtuoso Server?]]
   * [[VirtSetPrefixNames][Set Standard Prefix Names for common vocabularies?]]
   * [[VirtVisualizeWithPivotViewer][Use Microsoft's PivotViewer as a front-end to Linked Data sources?]]
   * [[VirtSparqlCxml][Use SPARQL to produce dynamic CXML collections for Microsoft's PivotViewer]]
   * [[VirtFacetBrowserInstallConfig][Install and Configure Virtuoso Faceted Browser?]]
   * [[VirtuosoFacetsWebService][Use the Virtuoso Faceted Search & Find Engine?]]
   * [[VirtuosoLODSampleTutorial][Use Faceted Navigation to Explore Virtuoso hosted Linked Data?]]
   * [[VOSSQL2RDF][Create RDF based Linked Data Views over ODBC or JDBC accessible Relational Data Sources?]]
   * [[http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRdb2RDFViewsGeneration#OneClickLinkedDataGenerationAndDemployment][Use Virtuoso's HTML based Wizard to Generate RDF based Linked Data from Relational Databases?]]
   * [[VirtR2RML][Use R2RML (RDB to RDF Mapping Language) with Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtDeployingLinkedDataGuide][Deploy Linked Data using Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtSponger][Learn about the Virtuoso RDFization Middleware called the "Sponger"?]]
   * [[VirtSpongerRESTPatterns][Use the Sponger Middleware via REST patterns?]]
   * [[VirtSpongerCartridgeProgrammersGuide_Part3][Interact with Sponger Linked Data Middleware via REST patterns?]]
   * [[VirtSpongerACL][How can I Setup Virtuoso Sponger Access Control List (ACL)?]]
   * [[VirtuosoPHP][Develop Virtuoso Hosted Applications using PHP?]]
   * [[VirtSPARQLRef][Learn About Virtuoso's SPARQL Query Language Support, By Example?]]
   * [[VirtSPARQLSecurityWebID][Secure My SPARQL Endpoint using WebID Protocol?]]
   * [[VirtSPARQLDET][How Use My SPARQL Endpoint To Save Results Into Its host WebDAV Repository?]]
   * [[VirtSPARQLSSL][Creating and Using a SPARQL-WebID based Endpoint from a command line?]]
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/ODSWebIDIdpProxy][How can I use the WebID Identity Provider Proxy Service?]]
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/ODSWebIDIdP][How can I use the WebID Identity Verification Service?]]
   * [[VirtSPARQLOptGuide][Optimize my SPARQL queries' performance?]]
   * [[VirtSPARQLConfWideCharUnicodeUTF][Configure Virtuoso wide character / unicode / UTF-8 support for SPARQL querying?]]
   * [[VirtAuthServerUI][Set WebID Protocol using the Virtuoso Authentication Server UI?]]
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/ODSBriefcaseFOAFSSL][Use WebID Protocol for enhanced ODS-Briefcase (WebDAV) Access Control Lists (ACLs)?]]
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/ODSBriefcaseFOAFSSLX509][Configure Virtuoso+ODS instance as an X.509 Certificate Authority?]]
   * [[VirtSetupSSL][Set Up the Virtuoso HTTPS Listener?]]
   * [[VirtSetupSSLVirtuoso][How Do I Setup my Virtuoso Instance as a Certificate Authority for use with SSL/TLS?]]
   * [[VirtWebIDODBCLogin][Configure WebID Protocol ODBC Login?]]
   * [[VirtRDFGraphsSecurity][Manage RDF Graphs security levels?]]
   * [[VOSUti][Administer a Virtuoso instance via my Browser?]] 
   * [[VirtuosoEC2AMI][Obtain and Install the Virtuoso EC2 AMI?]]  
   * [[VOSRDFDataProviders ][Access Virtuoso's Quad Store via RDF Frameworks such as: Jena, Sesame, or Redland?]]
   * [[VirtSesame2HttpRepository][Configure Virtuoso Sesame HTTP Repository?]]
   * [[VirtJdbcHibernate][Configure Hibernate Connection to Virtuoso using JDBC Driver?]]
   * [[VirtLinkRemoteTables][Attach ODBC or JDBC accessible Data Sources to the Virtuoso Virtual Database Engine?]]
   * [[VirtODBCJDBCUTF8Set][Set utf8 for ODBC or JDBC connections?]]
   * [[http://demo.openlinksw.com/tutorial/][Learn about Virtuoso functionality via Tutorials?]]
   * [[VOSTPCHLinkedData][Learn about the Virtuoso SPARQL-BI extensions and TPC-H As Linked Data?]]
   * [[VirtCustomizeSPARQLEndpoint][Customize the SPARQL Endpoint Page?]]
   * [[VirtSPARQLXSLT][Use SPARQL inside XSLT?]]
   * [[VOSClient][Connect to a Virtuoso instance via ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE-DB, and XMLA clients?]]
   * [[VirtRoundRobinDataAccessClients][Configure Virtuoso Data Access Clients for Connection Fail over and Load Balancing?]]
   * [[http://wikis.openlinksw.com/dataspace/owiki/wiki/OATWikiWeb/InteractiveSparqlQueryBuilder][Use the Visual iSPARQL Query Builder against a Virtuoso Instance?]]
   * [[VirtuosoOAuthProgrammersGuide][Use OAuth for authentication, SPARQL queries, ubiquity commands?]]
   * [[VirtAdoNet35Provider][Use ADO.NET 3.5 & Entity Frameworks with Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtAdoNet35Provider][Use ADO.NET Data Object Services with Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtuosoDAVS3][Sync data from Amazon S3 to Virtuoso and back?]]
   * [[VirtSetCrawlerJobsGuide][Setup Crawler Jobs using the Conductor?]]
   * [[http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/rdfsparql.html#rdfsupportedprotocolendpointuri][How to assign SPARQL_SPONGE privileges to user SPARQL?]]
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/OdsIntegrationphpBB][Deploy phpBB3 using Virtuoso?]]
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/OdsIntegrationDrupal][Deploy Drupal using Virtuoso?]]
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/OdsIntegrationWordPress][Deploy WordPress using Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtDeployMediaWiki][Deploy MediaWiki using Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtDeploSemanticMediaWiki][Deploy SemanticMediaWiki using Virtuoso?]]
   * [[VirtManageVersions][Manage Resource Versions?]]
   * [[VirtURIShortener][Use the Virtuoso URL Shortener?]]

 
---++FAQ

   * [[VOSVirtuoso6FAQ][Virtuoso 6 - FAQ]]
   * [[VirtuosoFAQ][Virtuoso Product Family - FAQ]]

---++Troubleshooting

   * [[http://wikis.openlinksw.com/dataspace/owiki/wiki/VirtuosoWikiWeb/TroubleshootingVirtuosoProblemCategories][Virtuoso Troubleshooting Resources]]

---++Functionality Realms

   * [[VOSDB][Object-Relational Database]] for SQL, XML, RDF, and Free Text that includes Java and .NET runtime hosting 
   * [[VOSRDF][RDF]] store and [[VOSSPARQL][SPARQL]]
   * [[VOSDAV][WebDAV Server]] 
   * [[VOSSOA][Web Services Platform for SOA]]
   * [[VOSAPPSRV][Web Application Server]] for Drupal, <nowiki>WordPress</nowiki>, <nowiki>MediaWiki</nowiki>, and <nowiki>phpBB</nowiki>


---++Applications Built using Virtuoso 
   * [[http://ods.openlinksw.com/wiki/ODS/][OpenLink Data Spaces]] 

---++Client Connectivity Tools
   * [[http://wikis.openlinksw.com/dataspace/owiki/wiki/OATWikiWeb/InteractiveSparqlQueryBuilder][Visual iSPARQL Query Builder]]

---++Extensions
---+++Language Runtime Hosting
   * [[VOSBldJava][Java]]
   * [[VOSBldMono][Mono]]
   * [[VOSBldPHP][PHP]]

---+++Plugins
   * [[VOSBldIMG][ImageMagick]]

---+++Utility Web Services
   * [[VirtuosoFacetsWebService][Faceted Browsing]] (*Virtuoso 6.0 only*)
   

---++Additional Information
   * [[VirtTipsAndTricksGuide][Virtuoso Tips and Tricks Collection]]
   * [[VOSArticles][Technical White Papers and Articles]]
   * [[VirtPresentations][Presentations]]



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