AW: ANN: Querying the complete Semantic Web with SPARQL

Hi Ivan,

yes, we are just in the process of buying a server on which we can host the
library. The idea is to set it up in a way that all clients share the same
RDF cache on the server. This would mean that by people using the service,
the cache up would fill with large parts of the Semantic Web (and we would
become the Google of the Semantic Web ;-). Beside of the SPARQL interface,
we are also thinking about providing a RDF browser/visualizer on the server.
People could use the browser to view their RDF files (maybe with a nice
Fresnel rendering). The browser would allow us to collect the URLs of RDF
files on the Web and could be a smart alternative to registration services
like Ping the Semantic Web. 

So, lots of interesting stuff to do and comments highly welcome.

Cheers

Chris


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Chris Bizer
Freie Universität Berlin
Phone: +49 30 838 54057
Mail: chris@bizer.de
Web: www.bizer.de


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2006 10:47
> An: Chris Bizer
> Cc: jena-dev@yahoogroups.com; ng4j-namedgraphs@lists.sourceforge.net;
> semantic-web@w3.org; public-sparql-dev@w3.org
> Betreff: Re: ANN: Querying the complete Semantic Web with SPARQL
> 
> This sounds really interesting...
> 
> I was wondering whether you thought of setting up a SPARQL-like endpoint
> for your system, a bit like SPARQler. People could then experiment with
> this without going through the trouble of installing the system...
> 
> Ivan
> 
> P.S. I have added an entry to http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemanticWebTools
> 
> Chris Bizer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > we have released a Semantic Web Client Library which represents the
> > complete Semantic Web as a single RDF graph.
> >
> >
> >
> > The library enables applications to query this global graph using
> > SPARQL- and find(SPO) queries. To answer queries, the library
> > dynamically retrieves information from the Semantic Web by dereferencing
> > HTTP URIs and by following rdfs:seeAlso links using a similar
> > directed-browsing algorithm as the Tabulator browser. The library is
> > written in Java and is based on the Jena framework.
> >
> >
> >
> > For example, executing the SPARQL query "Find all developers of the
> > Tabulator project, their email addresses and other projects they are
> > involved in." against Semantic Web results into information about 8
> > developers. To answer the query, the library retrieves 15 documents from
> > the Semantic Web.
> >
> >
> >
> > More information about the library is found on the project's website:
> >
> > http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Chris Bizer
> >
> > Richard Cyganiak
> >
> > Tobias Gauss
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Chris Bizer
> >
> > Freie Universität Berlin
> >
> > Phone: +49 30 838 54057
> >
> > Mail: chris@bizer.de
> >
> > Web: www.bizer.de
> >
> 
> --
> 
> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
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Received on Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:12:49 UTC