Re: RDF calendaring & GEO information

hi Negar

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Negar Razbani-Tehrani wrote:

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> Hi,
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> I've been following the mailing list for some time now. I'm specially
> interested in combining the presentation of geographical information
> with calendars and drawing inferences upon them.
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> My plan is to use your current RDF calendar (instead of the older hybrid
> calendar) below:
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> http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ical.rdf
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this is defnitely the one to use.

> And the test data compiled so far from various sources to do this.
> I think you have mostly used CWM (python's reasoning engine) to do
> some similar things.

CWM is used to generate the schema - see

http://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfCalendarSchema

Personally, I very rarely use inferencing tools - I tend to use very
simple queries and hardcoded logic.

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> There are so many ways to perform RDF queries and drawing inferences that
> it's hard to chose one set of tools vs. others.
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> Can anyone from this group give me some guidelines or share their
> experiences about the tools they've used and liked?
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> I am more leaning towards importing the RDF sample calendars into protege
> & using the Jess (tab) to do the reasoning. But I find it hard to do
> queries in Jess, any suggestions would be appreciated.

One thing you could do is try this question on www-rdf-rules@w3.org or
perhaps www-rdf-interest@w3.org where there are people who
might be able to give you an overview of the tools available.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Libby

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> Thanks,
> Negar.
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