Re: RDF/OWL/Sparql and native XML databases

You may want to have a look at XSPARQL, that was presented at ESWC 2008:
http://www.eswc2008.org/final-pdfs-for-web-site/qpI-1.pdf
http://xsparql.deri.ie/

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-HBE)
<Matthew.C.Johnson@lexisnexis.com> wrote:
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> Admittedly, this is not a semantic-web question, per se, but I'm thinking
> that this list may be more relevant than xml-dev…but I could be wrong.
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> Does anyone have any experience or comments on using a native XML database
> (e.g. MarkLogic, Exist, Oracle XML DB) as a triple store?  If so, I'm
> curious as to how the translation from a XML model to the RDF model can be
> achieved.  From my experience, most of these products focus on XQuery (which
> is great but doesn't seem powerful enough to understand the RDF model except
> to possibly extract all rdf:Description elements and then pass them off to
> something like Jena separately) and I'm also not aware of any means for
> connecting to native XML databases via Jena or other RDF (or OWL) enabled
> processors.  It seems that XQJ may eventually provide a standard for
> connectivity (that could be built on top of) but I don't think it is widely
> implemented yet.  Does anyone have enough exposure to this area to either
> confirm (or contradict) these statements.  The ability to use a native XML
> database for both "content" (books, etc.) in addition to RDF metadata seems
> compelling but I'm not sure if it has been done or is even currently
> doable.  Thanks in advance!
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> Matt Johnson
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> matthew.c.johnson@lexisnexis.com
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