Re: Few Questions about RDF.rb

I've been working with allegrograph, RDF.rb, SPIRA, and Rails.  I've made
some changes to rdf-sesame to improve it for allegrograph.  I also wrote
some code that provides access to the geospatial capabilties of
allegrograph: create point, create polygon, get all points inside, etc. This
code isn't released yet, but I can get it to you - it's still a little
rough.

If you have any question feel to drop me a line.  I'll probably write up a
little doc on Rails 3, RDF, Allegrograph, SPIRA, and RDF.rb soon.

danny


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Arto Bendiken <arto@bendiken.net> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Alex Genadinik (Contractor)
> <Alex.Genadinik@ucop.edu> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am considering using RDF.rb for Ruby.
> >
> > 1)      In the documentation it says that it handles RDF, but what about
> > working with OWL?  Or is that also handled since it is RDF-based?
>
> RDF.rb will let you manipulate OWL data stored as RDF, but it does not
> have any inference or other OWL-level support.
>
> > 2)      Can I connect to a variety of triple-stores like Virtuoso or
> > Allegrograph for example?
>
> You can interface with AllegroGraph using either of the following gems:
>
> http://rubygems.org/gems/rdf-agraph
> http://rubygems.org/gems/rdf-sesame
>
> I'm not aware of any specific RDF.rb support for Virtuoso, but the
> SPARQL::Client gem will certainly enable you to query data stored in
> Virtuoso:
>
> http://rubygems.org/gems/sparql-client
>
> You can search RubyGems.org as follows to find RDF.rb-compatible gems
> for other stores (4store, etc):
>
> http://rubygems.org/search?query=rdf-
>
> --
> Arto Bendiken | @bendiken | @dydradata
>
>
>