Posted January 29, 2007 - 11:23am by Stephen Evanchik
Late last week I released "ODO 0.20":http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=181986&package_id=215049 which has some important updates:
* Jena Database compatibility layer
It is now possible to connect to and read/write databases created with "HP Lab's Jena":http://jena.sf.net . The code is still experimental but provides a good starting point for feedback. There are test cases in this release so regression testing and bug demonstration should be easy.
* RDFS code generator.
Ontologies and more specifically the RDFS code generator have been updated and bug tested. The version in the first release was a port of older code that didn't translate perfectly in to the new ODO framework. I am happy to report that the code is now used to host the ODO-Jena compatibility layer and there are now test cases for it as well.
Posted December 14, 2006 - 1:58pm by Stephen Evanchik
I have been working at "IBM":http://www.ibm.com for the past couple years on a project called the "IBM Semantic Layered Research Platform":http://ibm-slrp.sourceforge.net . The project is a collection of software components that provide support for semantics through the entire application-middleware stack.
We released the "source code":http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=181986 for the entire project in November under the "Eclipse Public License":http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html .
My part of the project originates from my work on the "LSID":http://lsid.sourceforge.net project. I had been working with a lot of "RDF":http://www.w3.org/RDF/ metadata while maintaining the "Perl LSID development stack":http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130827&package_id=144608 and realized that (back in early 2004) that a clean, useful and relatively bug free RDF framework didn't exist. It turns out that a number of people shared my concerns and were independently creating their own ad hoc Perl libaries for RDF processing.
