Re: Using RDB for a large OWL-DL database.

Dear Jinsung Seol,

The problem you mentioned is very interesting and offers promising 
applications. I'm currently working on an OWL descriptions -> DB views 
translation. The implementation works meanwhile quite well (it's able to 
answer all LUMB [1] queries in a scalable way). I'm currently writing a 
paper, explaining the translation algorithm (the challenge is to deal 
with recursive OWL definitions, being not allowed in SQL). I will post 
an announcement to this list once I'm done. Meanwhile you can check the 
OWLDB module in Powl's [2] CVS repository [3] for the implementation, 
working on Powl's SemanticWeb PHP API with a MySQL backend. Code and 
installation however is not yet well documented.

Cheers,
Sören


[1] http://swat.cse.lehigh.edu/projects/lubm
[2] http://powl.sf.net
[3] http://powl.cvs.sourceforge.net/powl/owldb


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University of Pennsylvania, Dep. of Computer & Inform. Science