RE: "State of the Semantic Web" - personal opinions?

Jena runs on .Net - the jars files can be converted successfully with IKVM.

        Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Alan Dean
> Sent: 30 June 2008 19:32
> To: Danny Ayers
> Cc: semantic-web@w3.org; Ivan Herman; Paul Miller
> Subject: Re: "State of the Semantic Web" - personal opinions?
>
>
> I chatted with Danny a while back, but I think it is worth putting my
> tuppence in to the thread.
>
> I develop for the Windows platform using .NET
>
> Like it or not (and I know that many in the SemWeb community probably
> don't care much for MS) this is where huge amounts of LoB development
> gets done.
>
> I am a huge fan of the semantic web 'promise' (also of REST, fwiw). My
> problem is that there are no 'first-class' libraries out there for use
> by .NET developers (especially those who are not experts in semantic
> technologies).
>
> Yes, there is SemWeb [1]. But although it is the nearest to being
> useful, it is not 'first class' (and I mean Joshua Tauberer no offence
> in saying this).
>
> Yes, there is Redland [2]. The problem is that the windows binaries
> have not maintained since before the dinosaurs (correction: April
> 2006) and unless you are a C++ guru I don't fancy your chances.
>
> Yes, I could write my own library ... but I'm insufficiently expert on
> semantic technologies to do so and, besides, I want to ship end-user
> functionality - not core libraries.
>
> The truth, however unpalatable, is that unless MS or another big beast
> ships a library / framework that the .NET community can rely upon and
> learn from then the number of business apps employing semantic
> technologies will remain small.
>
> I do not wish to sound like a doomsayer. On the contrary, I fervently
> hope that we will get .NET framework support - it's just it feels like
> we are in the Dark Ages right now. If I am incorrect, and there is
> such a library already, I would be overjoyed to be proven wrong.
>
> [1] http://razor.occams.info/code/semweb/

> [2] http://librdf.org/

>
> Regards,
> Alan Dean
> http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean

>

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