Interoperable read - write Linked Data application development with the LDP 4 j framework

Enterprises are increasingly using a wide range of heterogeneous information systems for executing and governing their business activities. Even if the adoption of service orientation has improved loose coupling and re-usability, applications are still isolated data silos whose integration requires complex transformations and mediations. However, by leveraging Linked Data principles those data silos can now be seamlessly integrated, and this opens the door to new data-driven approaches for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). In this paper we present LDP4j, an open source Java-based framework for the development of interoperable read-write Linked Data applications, based on the W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP) specification.