Snowman is designed to allow RDF-based projects to use SPARQL in the user-facing parts of their stack, even at scale. Snowman powers projects rendering simple SKOS vocabularies as well as projects rendering entire knowledge bases. Snowman's templating system comes with RDF- and SPARQL-tailored functions, and features and takes its data from SPARQL queries.

Installation

Download the latest release for your OS/architecture.

If your OS/architecture combination is not available, you will need to build Snowman from source:

git clone https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman
cd snowman
go build -o snowman

Usage

Running snowman new --directory="my-project-name" will scaffold a new project utilising the most common Snowman features.

To go from there checkout the Snowman Manual or the examples directory.

Development

Snowman is written in Go. To build Snowman from source, you need to have Go installed. Clone the repository and build the binary:

git clone https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman
cd snowman
go build -o snowman

To run the tests, use the foollowing command:

go test ./...

To make a release, see RELEASE.md.

Building the documentation

The documentation is built using mdBook. To build the documentation, run the following command:

cd docs && mdbook serve

License

Copyright (c) 2020- Albin Larsson & contributors. Snowman is made available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.