On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>wrote: > 2008/11/27 Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> > >> >> Hugh, >> >> Here's what I think we will see in the area of RDF publishing in a few >> years: >> >> - those query capabilities are described in RDF and hence can be invoked >> by tools such as SQUIN/SemWebClient to answer certain queries efficiently >> > > I still don't understand what SQUIN etc have that goes above > Jena/Sesame/SemWeb etc which can do this URI resolution with very little > programming knowledge in custom applications. > True, jena/sesame does everything that SQUIN entails to do. However, SQUIN is oriented to the "web2.0" developers. How is a php/ror web developer going to interact with the web of data and make some kind of semantic-linked data mashup over a night? SQUIN will let them do this. No need of having jena, learning jena, etc. Make it simple! If it is not simple, then developers are not going to use it.
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