Re: OWL and LOD

On 12 May 2009, at 11:26, John Goodwin wrote:
>
>> If I could be sure that my SPARQL query environment would use
>> OWL reasoning to fill in the gaps in its knowledge, then I'd
>> be more inclined to publish OWL data. But right now there is
>> a dearth of high-quality, widely-used OWL implementations.
>
> Well there are implementations of SPARQL-DL (e.g. Pellet) but most
> SPARQL endpoints I know do tend to just do RDFS reasoning (if that).
> Maybe demand will drive more implementations?
>
> I know there is a new SPARQL working group - is there much talk of OWL
> inference + SPARQL going on there?

Yes, there is. That doesn't directly address the problem of how you  
run a OWL-DL reasoner over even medium sized datasets (say, one  
gigatriple). As far as I know that is an unsolved problem, though I  
could well be out of date in that front.

My understanding is that the issues around SPARQL/OWL are to do with  
how you get consistent results across OWL reasoners, and how you  
represent certain types of entailment in SPARQL results.

- Steve

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