Re: Managing Co-reference (Was: A Semantic Elephant?)

FWIW, I wouldn't mind at all seeing (i) the main discussion move to a  
public list like Tim suggested, (ii) the stuff like the below moving  
to private email....


On May 14, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Kendall Grant Clark wrote:

> Excerpts from Kingsley Idehen's message of Wed May 14 16:08:39 -0400  
> 2008:
>
>> Okay, the JDBC bit is good, and we can easily test Owlgres against
>> Virtuoso JDBC.  But of course, we end up with the obvious question:  
>> Why
>> are we using JDBC to talk to a DBMS engine equipped with a Quad  
>> Store?
>
> I don't know, Kingsley, why are you doing that? We're *not* doing that
> presently, so it's not a super interesting question for *us*. YMMV.
>
>> We've been through this re. recent work relating to new Model  
>> Providers
>> for Sesame, Jena, and Redland (all of which offer SQL DBMS and Graph
>> Model persistence  APIs).
>
> Okay, I guess I'm just not clever enough to realize what anything  
> you all have
> been doing with those systems has anything to do with what we're  
> doing?
>
>> I am trying to determine if  we've ended up with  two things that are
>> artificially disconnected :-)
>
> Only under a robust, extensive set of assumptions that I guarantee  
> "we" do not
> share. :>
>
> Cheers,
> Kendall

"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would  
it?." - Albert Einstein

Prof James Hendler				http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler
Tetherless World Constellation Chair
Computer Science Dept
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180

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