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+# xbib Content
+
+image:https://api.travis-ci.org/xbib/content.svg[Build status]
+image:https://img.shields.io/sonar/http/nemo.sonarqube.com/org.xbib%20content/coverage.svg?style=flat-square[Coverage]
+image:https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/org.xbib/content/badge.svg[Maven Central]
+
+This is a Java library for processing structured data ("content") in the most popular formats, such as
+JSON, SMILE-JSON, YAML, XML, CSV, and also semantic descriptions in RDF (N-Triples, Turtle, RDF/XML).
+
+xbib Content offers stream-based Java builders, parsers, and a settings API oder the formats, so it is very convenienant
+to use. The only dependency is https://github.com/fasterxml/jackson[the Java Jackson library].
+
+## Usage
+
+The library is provided by Maven Central repository. You can use the library with Gradle
+
+```
+dependencies {
+    compile "org.xbib:content-core:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-csv:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-json:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-language:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-rdf:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-resource:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-smile:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-xml:1.0.1"
+    compile "org.xbib:content-yaml:1.0.1"
+}
+```
+
+or with Maven
+
+```
+   <dependency>
+     <groupId>org.xbib</groupId>
+     <artifactId>content-core</artifactId>
+     <version>1.0.1</version>
+   </dependency>
+```
+
+# License
+
+Copyright (C) 2016 Jörg Prante
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+you may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
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