- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:13:01 +0200
- To: seweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at, semantic-web@w3.org, sw-announce@semanticplanet.com, semanticweb@yahoogroups.com, powl-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, powl-releases@lists.sourceforge.net
This new release of the development framework for Semantic Web
applications - Powl - includes significant performance improvements, an
ID column has been added to the statements table (existing SQL stores
have to be altered). A class InstanceSearch for semantic enhanced
full-text search on instances has been added to the API, as well as an
initial alpha version of a Semantic Cache, further the user interface
was translated to Polish (thanx to Patryk Burek).
Version 0.9 was just published and may be downloaded from the
SourceForge project page: http://sf.net/projects/powl .
Further information about Powl is to be found at:
http://powl.sourceforge.net
Features include:
* Support for viewing, editing of RDFS/OWL ontologies.
* Sophisticated widgets for data editing.
* Questioning the knowledge base with RDQL (query builder) or
full-text search.
* Powl is extensible via it's plug-in concept.
* Object oriented API.
* Versioning. All edits of a knowledge base may be logged and rolled
back.
* Scalability. Models are stored in database tables and only those
parts of the model are loaded into main memory which are actually edited.
* Multi language support.
* Easy deployment.
Powl is released under GNU Public License (GPL).
Sören Auer
on behalf of the Powl development team
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Sören Auer - University of Leipzig - Dept. of Computer Science
Room 5-52, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, +49 (341) 97-32323
Received on Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:15:41 UTC