Re: Is OWL useful at all for Quantitative Science?

> You might also be interested in looking at SPIN, an extension of OWL  
> and SPARQL that uses an extended SPARQL syntax to create new  
> inferences, run simulations etc. It is only part of TopBraid  
> Composer so far (a commercial application).

Hi Matthias,

thanks for establishing the link - I fully agree with you on the  
usefulness of SPARQL for these tasks.

Just a quick detail: the SPIN spec and the Java API are all open source:

http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/spin/api/

Holger