ANN: Powl 0.9 - Semantic Web application development framework in PHP

This new release of the development framework for Semantic Web 
applications - Powl - includes significant performance improvements, an 
ID column has been added to the statements table (existing SQL stores 
have to be altered). A class InstanceSearch for semantic enhanced 
full-text search on instances has been added to the API, as well as an 
initial alpha version of a Semantic Cache, further the user interface 
was translated to Polish (thanx to Patryk Burek).
Version 0.9 was just published and may be downloaded from the
SourceForge project page: http://sf.net/projects/powl .
Further information about Powl is to be found at:

          http://powl.sourceforge.net

Features include:

    * Support for viewing, editing of RDFS/OWL ontologies.
    * Sophisticated widgets for data editing.
    * Questioning the knowledge base with RDQL (query builder) or 
full-text search.
    * Powl is extensible via it's plug-in concept.
    * Object oriented API.
    * Versioning. All edits of a knowledge base may be logged and rolled 
back.
    * Scalability. Models are stored in database tables and only those 
parts of the model are loaded into main memory which are actually edited.
    * Multi language support.
    * Easy deployment.

Powl is released under GNU Public License (GPL).

Sören Auer
on behalf of  the Powl development team


--------------------------------------------------------------
Sören Auer - University of Leipzig - Dept. of Computer Science
Room 5-52, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, +49 (341) 97-32323