HowTo Load RDF From A File

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Load RDF from a File

RDF can be loading from local files using the LoadFromFile() extension method. This method exists for both IGraph and ITripleStore e.g.

IGraph g = new Graph();
g.LoadFromFile("example.ttl");

Loading in a Specific Format

dotNetRDF attempts to detect the data format of the file based upon the file extension and failing that using some simple format detection heuristics on the file contents. You can force the loader to attempt to read RDF in a specific format by specifying the parser you want to use e.g.

IGraph g = new Graph();
g.LoadFromFile("example.ttl", new TurtleParser());

Learn more by reading the Reading RDF documentation.