Re: Callimachus Day Today

Hi Yury,
Callimachus is a Linked Data management system.  It is a platform for quickly producing data driven Web applications.  It is based on the RDF family of standards and is triples top to bottom (no mySQL under the covers).

Practically speaking, if I want to content on the Web that I might like to re-use down the road  ... I'm familiar with Drupal, Semantic Media wiki and Callimachus (of course there are many other wiki choices), but I personally would choose Callimachus if I needed data re-use.  But it is not an 'either or' situation.  They are different tools for slightly different purposes.

Callimachus is really focused helping developers produce Web apps  with structured data and a small amount of unstructured data.

Thus to answer your question, yes please feel free to add to a wikipedia page as people evaluating semantic wikis and collaborative RDF editors may want to check out Callimachus.  Here are some details that I hope are useful.

Callimachus is RDF store agnostic.  For RDF storage, it can use Sesame, Mulgara, OWLIM and the AllegroGraph port is happening this month.  Callimachus uses AliBaba, a RESTful object-RDF library, and an innovative template-by-example technique for viewing and editing resources. I say "innovative" because Callimachus uses RDFa as a query language and templates are parsed to build SPARQL from RDFa markup               and then filled with query results. 

So like popular wikis that make it easy for both technical and non-technical people to create applications in a Web environment, Callimachus makes creating Semantic Web applications easy.  Callimachus is an Open Source project and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.  Callimachus has a small but growing support community.  It is being used in production on the public Web and behind the firewall for enterprise Web apps.

Kind regards,
Bernadette Hyland

On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Yury Katkov wrote:

> Alas, I missed the Callimachus day, but I have a small question. Could Callimachus be classified as semantic wiki or collaborative RDF editor? I'm writing a wikipedia page on Semantic Wikis and I want to mention Callimahus there but don't know if it's the right thing to do. In my opinion many Callimachus features look like OntoWiki's and Freebase's features so it's terminologically true. 
> Sincerely yours,
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> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:13 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:
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> The Callimachus project team will hold a "Callimachus Day" today.  Please consider attending if you are interested in creating Linked Data applications or managing your Linked Data.
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> Callimachus is a framework for data-driven applications based on Linked Data principles. Callimachus allows Web authors to quickly and easily create semantically-enabled Web applications.  See http://callimachusproject.org for more information.
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> Come to #callimachus on IRC (irc.freenode.net). If you don't have an IRC client (or can't install
> one) you can follow the discussion using the web client at:http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=callimachus
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> The next Callimachus Day is scheduled for (today!) Tuesday March 6th, 2012.
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> Regards,
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