- From: Benjamin Nowack <bnowack@appmosphere.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:14:40 +0100
- To: Raphael Volz <volz@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On 31.12.2003 14:18:15, Raphael Volz wrote: >KAON only supports a slight extension of RDFS, the schema for storage employed >in KAON is documented >in http://kaon.semanticweb.org/Members/rvo/KAON_Dev_Guide.pdf > >We are currently working on support for OWL; the storage scheme we use here is >very simple since we create unary predicates/tables for every class and binary >predicates/tables for every property, the semantics of the ontology is >translated to rules that operate on top of these predicates. The OWL ontology >definition itself is not stored in the database but kept in main memory, we >actually did not encounter any ontology yet where this strategy did not work Ah, I see. Your approach is more flexible and future-proof than mine though I'm using the tables the other way round, for a web-based ontology modeler. I hardcoded the OWL terms into the schema, so I hope the spec will not change too soon ;-) Thanks for your help and greetings to Karlsruhe. And a H.N.Y., Benjamin ______________________________ Benjamin Nowack Kruppstrasse 82-100 45145 Essen, Germany
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