Announcing OpenLink Virtuoso, Open Source Edition, v6.1.5

Hi,

OpenLink Software is pleased to announce the official release of
Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 6.1.5:

New product features as of March 15, 2012, V6.1.5, include:

   * Database engine
     - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 WITH, USING, NAMED
     - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Update
     - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Functions
     - Added support for SPARQL Macro Library syntax
     - Added support for SPARQL DESCRIBE modalities via pragma options 
"OBJCBD" (object-slot-based concise bound description) and "SCBD" 
(symmetrical concise bound description)
     - Added support for SPARQL DESCRIBE/CONSTRUCT to return 3 column
       resultset when using SPASQL (SPARQL inside SQL) via 
ODBC/JDBC/.NET by default mode ( _JAVA_ or _UDBC_ for exceptions)
     - Added support for wide strings in all SPARQL serializers
     - Added common infrastructure for RDF-specific XML parsers
     - Added new RDF/XML serializer (faster + pretty printing)
     - Added TRIG formatter
     - Added support for R2RML for generating Linked Data Views over 
ODBC/JDBC accessible data sources and/or native Virtuoso RDBMS data
     - Added support for HTML+Microdata
     - Added human-readable HTML output for DESCRIBE (list and table) to 
SPARQL endpoint
     - Added support for SELECT scalar_expression subqueries without FROM
       clause to avoid extra lock on fake subqueries
     - Added DBpedia vad package
     - Added support for scoping ACL to a virtual folders
     - Added new Visual Studio 11 project files for both 32bit and 64bit 
builds
     - Fixed RDF/XML parser that passes W3C tests dated 2003-Nov.
     - Fixed JSON-LD syntax to match recent draft of the spec
     - Fixed CONSTRUCT with constant string objects with language
     - Fixed output of bnodes in RDF/XML format
     - Fixed support for sparql load <file:///....> i.e. file: scheme 
URI with absolute path
       from system root
     - Fixed issue with uninitialized variables
     - Fixed use portable method for escaping symbol for gawk 3 and 4
     - Fixed issue with semaphores on Mac OS X 10.7
     - Fixed compiler warnings
     - Fixed memory leaks
     - Updated documentation

   * SPARQL and RDF
     - Added new cartridges for LinkedIn, Angel List,Klout, New York 
Times Article,
       Social Statistics and Stackoverflow etc.
     - Added new ontolgies for Angel List, X.509 Certificates, 
Crunchbase, DBpedia
       Spotlight, NYT, LinkedIn, OpenLink Basic, OpenLink Web etc.
     - Added support for extracting all meta and link head-element data 
from XHTML documents
     - Added post-processing script for generating owl:sameAs links for
       co-reference resolution
     - Added support for get:soft "add" pragma for progressive Linked 
Data graph construction via Sponger
     - Added support for paging over large collections to FB cartridge
     - Fixed Amazon cartridge now works with new Product Advertising API
     - Fixed handling of # in About header
     - Fixed visually qualifying opl:mentions property values with 
source cartridge identifier
     - Fixed social-profile-url property across social cartridges

   * ODS Applications
     - Added support for WebID 1.0 spec
     - Added support for CalDAV and CardDAV protocols
     - Added ACL editing for DETs
     - Added folder selecton for SyncML
     - Added option to import rdf data from file
     - Added rule for briefcase folder IRIs
     - Added VCARD Property Grouping
     - Added private graphs data
     - Added option to deactivate user

Other links:

Virtuoso Open Source Edition:
  * Home Page:
    <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/>
  * Download Page:
    <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSDownload>

OpenLink Data Spaces:
  * Home Page:
    <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex>
  * SPARQL Usage Examples (re. SIOC, FOAF, AtomOWL, SKOS):
    <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef>

OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT):
  * Project Page:
    <http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat>
  * Live Demonstration:
    <http://demo.openlinksw.com/oatdemo>
  * Interactive SPARQL Demo:
    <http://demo.openlinksw.com/isparql/>

OpenLink Data Explorer (Firefox extension for RDF browsing):
  * Home Page:
    <http://ode.openlinksw.com/>

Regards,

~Tim
-- 
Tim Haynes
Product Development Consultant
OpenLink Software
<http://www.openlinksw.com/>
<http://twitter.com/openlink>

Received on Friday, 16 March 2012 12:18:20 UTC