Re: ANN: SPARQL-DL query engine for the OWL API

Michael Schneider wrote:
> Holger Knublauch wrote:
>
>> Hi Thorsten (and others),
>>
>> have you considered that SPARQL-DL may not be a good name for a
>> technology that has an entirely different syntax and semantics from
>> SPARQL? When I looked at this, I expected to find a DL-friendly subset
>> of SPARQL. But this is not what SPARQL-DL is.
>>
>> I believe there is enough confusion on the marketplace already. Why not
>> call it something like OWL-QL?
>
> Because there already is an "OWL QL" query language:
>
>      <http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/projects/owl-ql/>
>
> ... and because there is now also an "OWL 2 QL" ontology language:
>
>      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-profiles-20091027/#OWL_2_QL>
>
> Good names are rare and precious. ;-)

Absolutely right.
Furthermore, the term "SPARQL-DL" is not our invention. The name has its 
seeds in a OWLED '07 paper from Sirin and Parsia that introduced a 
subset of SPARQL for OWL DL. Our implementation basically is an 
extension of this query language wrt. OWL 2 on top of the OWL API.

Best,
Thorsten

>> On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Thorsten Liebig wrote:
>>
>>> We are happy to announce the initial release of our SPARQL-DL query
>> engine that is settled on top of the OWL API. The library is aligned
>> with the OWL 2 standard and adds a SPARQL-DL interface to every OWL API
>> 3 reasoner.
>>>
>>> Release 1.0.0 and accompanying documentation can be found at:
>>> http://www.derivo.de/en/resources/sparql-dl-api/
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> The RDF/OWL team at derivo
>>>
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