- From: Dickinson, Ian J <Ian.Dickinson@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:06:19 +0100
- To: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@mitre.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi Roger, > Another solution is to provide a standard OWL API. The API > has all the parsing smarts in it. Thus, this parsing code > isn't written over and over. There are a number of projects underway that are working on API's for OWL. Among them is Jena [1,2], which includes an API for accessing OWL, DAML+OIL and RDFS ontologies. Jena2 (currently in early preview-release status) also has a plug-in inferencing connector, to allow various description logic or theorem proving reasoners be used to determine the entailments from the source data and the OWL (or DAML or RDFS) semantics. Other approaches include Sean Bechhofer's work at U. Manchester, the Kaon group and (I believe) Aidministrator's Sesame. I'm sure there are others too (I don't mean to leave anyone out deliberately!) If you're advocating a *standard* OWL API, that's something we could discuss - but my suspicion is that it's a little early in the game. Most of the work that I know of is taking rather different approaches, and (imho) it's a good thing that we're probing this space in multiple ways. Cheers, Ian [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/jena [2] http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb
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