Re: Open source release of "Stralo", a new Linked Data platform

<http://www.reinvention.be> *We do video technology*
Visit our new website! <http://www.reinvention.be> *Bram Biesbrouck*
bram.biesbrouck@reinvention.be
+32 486 118280 <0032%20486%20118280>

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 18 October 2017 at 17:46, Bram Biesbrouck <bram.biesbrouck@reinvention.
> be> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Melvin Carvalho <
>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 18 October 2017 at 16:50, Bram Biesbrouck <
>>> bram.biesbrouck@reinvention.be> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to this mailing list, so please allow me to say hi to everyone
>>>> reading this. I'm Bram, a Belgian developer and (small) business owner,
>>>> fascinated by Linked Data.
>>>>
>>>> I'm reaching out to you because we have just released a new Linked Data
>>>> software suite called "Stralo" as open source to Github and we're dying to
>>>> get some feedback on it. We've been developing Stralo for the last 2-3
>>>> years, so it's quite extensive, but "we" is only three people, so don't
>>>> expect it to be polished, shiny and shimmering just yet.
>>>>
>>>> Stralo is build on a few central paradigms. It has native support for
>>>> advanced back-end functionalities like Distributed Storage (HDFS), Big
>>>> Data/Grid Computing (Hadoop/JPPF), Computer Vision and Artificial
>>>> Intelligence (JavaCPP, OpenCV, Tesseract, ...). But on the other hand, we
>>>> managed to hide all that complexity away by inventing a new UI, more or
>>>> less based on Lego and Webcomponents. Also, everything is stored in a
>>>> Triple Store so Stralo has RDF baked into it's DNA.
>>>>
>>>> We'd love to see Stralo grow, be tried out and picked at by other
>>>> developers. The code was released under a commercial-friendly license
>>>> (Apache2). It's business model is as open as possible, with sponsored
>>>> coding sprints, support and training sessions, so we, together with others,
>>>> have the means to promote it and make it bigger and better.
>>>>
>>>> *Stralo is new and we're in the process of introducing it to the
>>>> community. It would be very cool if you could take a look at www.stralo.com
>>>> <http://www.stralo.com/> and spread the word together with us (**blog/tweet/post
>>>> about it or just forward this mail**), so other interested parties
>>>> find their way to this new project.*
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks very cool!
>>>
>>> I'm interested in running video on the solid platform [1]
>>>
>>> It also uses linked data and I have added basic support for byte ranges
>>> so that you can seek within a video file
>>>
>>> Do you see any synergies or possibilities to interop between the two
>>> systems?
>>>
>>> One thing I'd like to develop is video playlists, and a viewer and
>>> ontology for that, for example.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/solid/solid
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Melvin,
>>
>> I don't have any experience with Solid (in fact, this is my first
>> encounter), but we sure have built in video support in Stralo. As a matter
>> of fact, the Belgian Royal Film Archive (www.cinematek.be) is one of our
>> main sponsors and we'll switch their collection to Stralo by the end of
>> this year, including support for embedded video. So there might be an
>> overlap with Solid indeed.
>>
>> Could you describe Solid in a nutshell?
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> Sure!
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> Slides: https://solid.github.io/intro-to-solid-slides/#1
>
> It basically allows you to store data on your own server, or one provided
> by a hoster.
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> You can store any type of data or media, but it treats linked data as a
> first class citizen.
>
> It also offers permissions, so that storage can be private, shared or
> public.
>
> My use case wrt to video is to watch my own archive (a few TB) at home or
> remotely, and able to share that with family etc.
>

Interesting, I'll take a look, thanks.