Re: [WRLD] issue from Jena-dev

Jeremy Carroll wrote:

> The following came up on Jena-dev, with the refrain "that sounds like a
> job for best practices" ... (not exactly)
> 
> [[
> given an arbitrary source of semantic
> web data on the 'net, what *is* the best practice for determining which
> semantic-web language and encoding is being used?
> ]]
> (e.g. use OWL Full or DL or RDFS semantics)

I'm not sure if this counts as best practice, but we use a simulated
stochastic process to determine which Semantic Web language is being used
by a particular file. You can see a demo of our technique at:

http://triplestore.aktors.org/demo/OwlBall/

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