Fuseki Quickstart

This page describes how to achieve certain common tasks in the most direct way possible.

Running with Apache Jena Fuseki loading a file.

1. Download the versioned distribution file `apache-jena-fuseki-VER.zip'
2. Unpack the distribution. The directory will be apache-jena-fuseki-VER/
3. Run the script fuseki-server, or fuseki-server.bat.
4. In your browser, go to http://localhost:3030/ (details such as port number depend optional arguments on the start-up script).
5. Click on “Add one”, choose “in-memory”, choose a name for the URL for the dataset.
6. Go to “add data” and load the file (single graph).

Try fuseki-server --help for command line options.

Publish an RDF file as a SPARQL endpoint.

1. Unpack the distribution.
2. Run fuseki-server –file FILE /name

The SPARQL endpoint will be http://localhost:3030/name/sparql and the SPARQL UI at http://localhost:3030/#/dataset/name/query.

Explore a TDB database

1. Unpack the distribution.
2. Run fuseki-server –loc=DATABASE /name
3. In a browser, go to http://localhost:3030/#/dataset/name/query.html

More details on running Fuseki can be found on the Fuseki Server page, including running as an operating system service or as a web app on a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat.