Re: Schism in the Semantic Web community.

Dear Olivier

I fully agree with your comments.

Regards,

Dr. Rajkumar Kannan
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Olivier Rossel <datao@datao.net> wrote:

>
> I am currently having a look at new features available in OWL2 (thanks
> for property chains :).
> But I am quite frustrated to see that only OWLAPI handles OWL2 at the
> moment.
> No short-term plan for Jena to support it.
> No idea if Swoop or Protege3-OWL will ever be upgraded to support it.
>
> OWLAPI does not manage semantic web at the statement level.
> Jena was one of the few libraries to be both statement-based and
> concept-based.
> Basically, i would say that Jena was the only API to glue the RDF
> world and the OWL world together.
> And because of that, it had been adopted by developpers as a
> "one-size-fits-all" library.
> And by RDF database vendors as their API for their RDF storage system.
>
> This makes me wonder:
> What will happen in the next future?
> Will we see a schism between RDF tools, and OWL tools?
> Virtuoso vs OwlGres?
>
> I think it is good that the Semantic Web has always keeped that
> internal competition between statements
> and boxes. But if tools support is splitted, then what? Two
> communities? Mass storage vs inference? A crucial
> tools choice to make in any IT project? Then we are back in the vendor
> lock-in nightmare.
>
> Well, this is quite a rough reflexion.
> Please comment.
>
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