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+Redland is a set of free software libraries that provide support for the
+Resource Description Framework (RDF).
+* Modular, object based libraries and APIs for manipulating the RDF graph,
+ triples, URIs and Literals.
+* Storage for graphs in memory and persistently with Sleepycat/Berkeley DB,
+ MySQL 3-5, PostgreSQL, AKT Triplestore, SQLite, files or URIs.
+* Support for multiple syntaxes for reading and writing RDF as RDF/XML,
+ N-Triples and Turtle Terse RDF Triple Language, RSS and Atom syntaxes via
+ the Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit.
+* Querying with SPARQL and RDQL using the Rasqal RDF Query Library.
+* Data aggregation and recording provenance support with Redland contexts.
+* Language Bindings in Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby via the Redland Bindings
+ package.
+* Command line utility programs rdfproc (RDF), rapper (parsing) and roqet
+ (query).
+* Portable, fast and with no known memory leaks.