Re: Sesame

Pierre Queinnec and Romain Roure used Jena in their java classes - which can
be found at http://encre.plastiqueweb.com/essi/annotea.tar.bz2

I have Bcc'ed them as they may have time to answer questions, although their
project work is now completed...

cheers

Chaals

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Libby Miller wrote:

>
>
>hi Shadi
>
>I'm the author of Inkling, and I should emphasise that it's
>experimental, demonstrator software, which I'm also in the process of
>rewriting significantly, with the emphasis on smallness and ease of use.
>
>I built it for myself - I'm a Semantic Web researcher - and I can't
>really provide a great deal of support for it, nor guarantee that it
>will work in a scalable way (it can however handle 200,000+ triples
>comfortably with a postgres backend database, and I'm happy to answer
>questions and help where I can. It's also handy for testing experimental
>approaches to querying small documents, for example using
>http://swordfish.rdfweb.org:085/rdfquery, and the little demo I wrote
>at a WAI meeting which you reference below).
>
>If you want something scalable and well-supported, Sesame and Jena are
>good choices for Java. Sesame and Jena support a similar query language
>to Squish (RDQL); Sesame also has two other query languages - RQL and
>SeRQL, and support for simple inferencing (subclassing and
>subproperties). The Sesame and Jena developers are friendly and
>helpful, and can be found on IRC (irc.freenode.net channel #rdfig) and
>on various mailing lists (www-rdf-rules@w3.org (RDF query),
>jena-dev@yahoogroups.com, jena-devel@sourceforge.net).
>
>I'm part of a project called SWAD-Europe
>(http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/), and we have been doing some surveys
>and reports on various aspects of RDF storage and query - you can find
>them here:
>
>http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/intro.html
>
>Hope that helps
>
>Libby
>
>
>On Sat, 10 May 2003, Shadi Abou-zahra wrote:
>
>>
>> hello,
>>
>> while experimenting with different approaches to query EARL results i
>> looked at two implementations:
>>
>> * Inkling - SquishQL based
>>   http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2001/10/earl/
>>
>> * Sesame - RQL based
>>   http://sesame.aidministrator.nl
>>
>> even though Sesame seems to be more flexible (finer query granularity
>> possible), i ask myself if the overhead involved in such an approach is
>> justified as i couldn't think of any vital EARL queries that can't be
>> covered using SquishQL. on the other hand it may not be wise to restrict
>> my EARL querying application from the start.
>>
>> anyway, i'm just curious to know if anyone else has experience with any
>> of these implementations and what your thoughts on them regarding EARL
>> queries are.
>>
>> thanks,
>>   shadi
>>
>>
>>
>

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