Re: Summarized outcomes from 24 May DSpace discussion

> III. Given strong consensus, moved to identifying potential toolkits 
> suitable for 1A/1C implementation on java/postgress implementation 
> platform.  Identified five (no particular order):
>          1. ICS-Forth RDFSuite <http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/>
>          2. Jena <http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/rdf/jena/>
>          3. EOR <http://eor.dublincore.org/>
>          4. Database-persistent SiRPAC <no URL available>
>             (perhaps superseded by EOR, development currently orphaned)
>          5. DoJo (builds on Jena) <no URL available>
> 
>          => (DSpace) offline investigation
>          => (DSpace, der) dialogue re: storage APIs, requirements for 
> schema support

We (aidministrator) are currently developing an RDF/RDFS repository and
query engine called "Sesame" for the European IST-project OnToKnowledge
(www.ontoknowledge.org). Sesame is written in Java and currently uses (but
is not limited to) PostgreSQL for persistent storage.

Sesame currently has a query engine using a language based on ICS-Forth's
RQL. There are some differences between Sesame and RDFSuite: Sesame does not
yet support all of RQL's primitives, but it does support properties with
multiple domain- and range-restrictions or properties without any domain- or
range-restrictions.

More information can be found at our demo server at
http://sesame.aidministrator.nl/ . We can create a DSpace account on this
server if people are interested in using it on DSpace data. Just let me know.

Regards,

Arjohn Kampman

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Received on Monday, 28 May 2001 06:49:15 UTC