The RING database is also an accessible RDF store. An RDF store is a way of storing data using a machine-readable "grammar" (the Resource Description Framework) and documented semantics (RDF vocabularies).
This store is accessible through a SPARQL engine, which means that any application can run remote queries and get the resulting triples.
The endpoint of the RING SPARQL engine is:
http://ring.ciard.net/sparql1
Facilitated by GFAR
A CIARD service
The RING is part of the