On 22 Aug 2010, at 11:11, Danny Ayers wrote: > Hello again Trialox guys, small world Henry :)
Hi Danny! Nice to hear from you again. > > Everyone else - pleased to meet you! > > Seems like I should do what I can to help the project, though other > commitments mean I'll be unlikely to be able to contribute much over > the next few months. > > Anyhow, there are two specific projects I'm intermittently working on > that Clerezza seems ideal for, and hopefully they should at least > provide some feedback (and maybe demos & tutorial-like documentation). > > The first is a blog engine - 'Gradino' [1] - I started it because I > want to learn Scala (getting there very slowly, my code is still very > Java-like). Essentially aiming for an easy-to-use WordPress-like > setup, but with added semweb goodness. Using Jena TDB & embedded > Jetty. Well finally we'll be able to work together! :-) Let me look at Gradino. I wanted to write a blog engine for Clerezza myself so if we can work in a team that will be great and should speet things up. And if it can be as easy to use as WordPress that would be fantatic :-) We have the same aims! > > I'd got as far as basic posting & viewing (the views coming from > templated SPARQL results), when Reto suggested I used jax-rs. As he > wrote the main bit of code I needed (a lot neater than I had already) > against the Trialox libs, how could I refuse..? I've since added > tagging facilities and some other oddments. Most of what I've got is > pretty much a quick & dirty version of some bits of Clerezza, so I > plan to gradually migrate across. And write tests :) > > The other project is something I suggested to the W3C's Semantic Web > Education & Outreach (SWEO) group a while back - 'Semantic Web in a > Box' [2] > > What I have in mind is a semweb tutorial/dev tool built as a Swing > (/Scala Swing) app with Clerezza & HTTP client bits under the hood - > primarily used as a local app, but easy to put stuff live on the Web. > > I did make a start on that ages ago - in svn at [3]. Very buggy, the > only remotely interesting bit being a Swing tree backed by a Jena > model, which seemed like a handy way of exploring/editing RDF. On the client side on the other hand I would like to finish off my Semantic Address Book if I get time, so I don't think I'll have that much time to help here. Working on getting Clerezza to be a distributed Facebook seems much easier and more rewarding :-) > > If anyone fancies helping out with either of these projects it would > make me very happy, The only constraint I want on them is that the > design should be relatively lightweight core, bells and whistles added > through plugins (which I guess shouts osgi, although I haven't got > that far yet). I think I put a BSD license on the code but could > easily change that to Apache if that would be more suitable. > > btw, as there isn't a clerezza-user list within Apache, have you > considered setting one up elsewhere? Given the amount of work done > already (there's a lot of code!) I suspect adding more eyeballs could > be useful. > > Cheers, > Danny. > > [1] http://www.knowledgeforge.net/project/gradino/ > [2] http://dannyayers.com/2006/02/02/sweo-suggestion-2-semantic-web-in-a-box/ > [3] http://knowledgeforge.net/gradino/svn/misc/hyperdata/rdftree/ > > -- > http://danny.ayers.name
