Re: Which API ?

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 22 Jan 2010, at 00:04, Pradeep Shankar wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I have a abstract idea about a project. In my project, I want to have an
>> OWL ontology, SWRL rules, and may be
>> queries which I want to use in a java program.
>>
>
> For most of that the OWL API works pretty well. If your queries are SPARQL
> queries, Jena may be a better fit. Pellet works with either. More reasoners
> (to my knowledge) work with the OWL API.


 What I understood about SPARQL is that - it is just able to query over RDF.
When SPARQL makes query over OWL, it does not provide entailed results. I
also want to achieve entailed results. So which query language I should use?



>
>  In order to realize this idea what API or framework I should use, such
>> that I can use reasoning power of OWL, SWRL,
>> and possibly query over the asserted knowledge.
>>
>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>

Thanks.