Re: [ANN] Sophia: A Rust toolkit for RDF and Linked Data

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 13:23, John P. McCrae <john.mccrae@insight-centre.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks, it looks very interesting.
>

Thanks :)

What is the difference between this project and other RDF Rust libraries,
> particularly Rome <https://github.com/vandenoever/rome>?
>

Sophia started as a project to teach myself Rust. For that purpose, I
thought I would either create or contribute to an RDF library. I had a look
at a few existing libraries (including Rome), and none of them looked
active anymore. Additionally, I was not entirely comfortable with the
design choices that had been done. So I ended up creating my own.

That being said, I have noticed that Rome has become more active again in
the meantime, so I have to look more into it, and see how both project can
cross-fertilize each other. I am also in contact with the developers of
Rudf (https://github.com/Tpt/rudf).

Perhaps it would be a good idea to form a group for those interested in
> implementing Semantic Web standards in Rust, sort of like a "Are We
> Semantic Web Yet?" so we can create a roadmap to have a pure-Rust library
> which supports the majority of the current standards from RDF/XML to
> JSON-LD to HDT.
>

Sounds great! Actually, I was wondering about creating a Community Group
"rdf-rust", who could be managing a "Are We Semantic Web Yet?"...

  best


> Regards,
> John McCrae
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 21:34, Pierre-Antoine Champin <
> pierre-antoine.champin@univ-lyon1.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have been working recently on a Rust implementation of RDF and Linked
>> Data.
>> It is called Sophia (https://github.com/pchampin/sophia_rs), and it is
>> still in a very early stage. However, it is designed with genericity and
>> extensibility in mind, and following Rust's motto of "zero-cost
>> abstraction".
>>
>> I also published a benchmark that I used to compare Sophia to other RDF
>> libraries. The first promising results are available here:
>> https://github.com/pchampin/sophia_benchmark/blob/master/benchmark_results.ipynb
>> .
>>
>> Finally, one of my short term goals is to provide a Web Assembly version
>> of Sophia, since Rust has a very dynamic ecosystem around Web Assembly.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>   Pierre-Antoine Champin
>>   http://champin.net/
>>
>>
>>
>>