- From: Eyal Oren <eyal.oren@deri.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:37:47 +0100
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- Message-id: <20060331153747.GK20891@eyaloren.org>
Hi, FYI, we have recently released the first version of ActiveRDF [1], an object-oriented library for accessing RDF data (Person.firstName instead of Resource.getProperty). See the website for more examples, information and download. ActiveRDF is completely dynamic, offers full manipulation and querying of RDF data, does not rely on a schema and can be used against different data-stores. In addition, the integration with the popular Rails framework enables very easy development of Semantic Web applications. ActiveRDF can be compared with other approaches, such as RDFReactor [2], Elmo [3] and Jastor [4], but uses the flexibility of a scripting language to (better) adhere to the RDF philosophy: it does not assume a schema, it does not assume that a schema is stable and it does not assume all data to conform to a schema (if given). If people are interested, I could give more details about the challenges of doing object-oriented RDF access, the problems when using a statically typed compiled language and the advantages of using a scripting language. And of course, the coolest thing is Ruby and the integration with Rails! -eyal [1] http://activerdf.m3pe.org [2] http://rdfreactor.ontoware.org/ [3] http://www.openrdf.org/doc/elmo/users/index.html [4] http://jastor.sourceforge.net/
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