Re: SPARQL vs OWL query languages

Hi Cristina --

You may be interested in the integrated approach to reasoning over OWL, RDF
and relational databases in the system online  at the site below.

Some examples:

www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/RDFQueryLangComparison1.agent

www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/BiopaxOwlLevel2.agent

www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/OwlResearchOnt.agent

www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/OwlTest1.agent

www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/FeaReferenceModelOntology2.agent


Apologies if you have seen this before, and thanks for comments.

                                                    -- Adrian

Internet Business Logic
A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English over SQL
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com    Shared use is free

Adrian Walker
Reengineering

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Cristina Sarasua <csarasua@vicomtech.org>
wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> First of all I would like to thank you for maintaining this list.
>
> I have a question regarding the necessity of using OWL query languages
> when dealing with OWL DL ontologies.
>
> SPARQL is a query language for RDF and it has been stated that OWL query
> languages are needed so that queries take into account the semantics of OWL.
> However, OWL semantics could be materialized by means of a reasoner. So,
> couldn't we achieve the same with SPARQL in a Jena environment for example?
>
> If I am wrong I would be extremely grateful if somebody could explain this
> problem in depth using examples if possible.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
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