Re: Developers Guide to Semantic Web Toolkits for different Programming Languages

Chris,

this is a great report. Thanks for putting it together.

I have some corrections regarding our "Wilbur" toolkit:

First, "Lisp" is not an actual programming language per se. You should say
"Common Lisp" (this is the ANSI X3J13 Standard). There are other dialects,
such as "Scheme", but I haven't seen any RDF software for those.

We don't actually do releases, but label source code in the CVS. The latest
such "release" is labeled "just-before-Wilbur2-branch", and dated November
28, 2004. Fairly recent, that is.

As for the API paradigms, we support both a statement-centric view as well
as a resource-centric view.

"Wilbur 2" is in the works, and will probably be released in a month or so.
It has, among other things, database support (anything CL-SQL supports,
theoretically anyway, that is MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, etc.). It will also
have Ntriples serialization and parsing.

Kind regards,

    - Ora

-- 
Ora Lassila  mailto:ora.lassila@nokia.com  http://www.lassila.org/
Research Fellow & Head of Competence Area (Data Modeling & Management)
Nokia Research Center / Boston

> From: ext Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:19:18 +0100
> To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Cc: 'Daniel Westphal' <mail@d-westphal.de>
> Subject: Developers Guide to Semantic Web Toolkits for different Programming
> Languages
> Resent-From: <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:20:14 +0000
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> in preparation for a workshop about the usage of scripting languages in the
> context of the Semantic Web (http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2005/), we
> are collecting links to Semantic Web toolkits for different programming
> languages.
> 
> Currently we have got C, Haskell, Java, Lisp, .Net, Perl, PHP, Prolog and
> Python.
> 
> For each toolkit, we evaluate:
> + which features are offered (APIs, query languages, storage, reasoning
> support), 
> + the strength of the development effort (number of developers involved,
> latest release), 
> + the activity level of the toolkit's user community (number of downloads,
> active mailing list).
> 
> Our current list is found at
> http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/toolkits/
> 
> Do you know about any other toolkits?
> Maybe also for languages that we have missed? We didn't find toolkits for
> Ruby, Javascript, ActionScript and ColdFusion yet. Is there no Semantic Web
> support for these languages?
> 
> All hints are highly appreciated.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Bizer
> Freie Universität Berlin
> Phone: +49 30 838 54057
> Mail: chris@bizer.de
> Web: www.bizer.de
> 
>

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