Hello everyone,

i start begging pardon if it's not the right place to ask this....  
anyway:
I'm developing a software that navigates dbpedia instances and returns  
the node that satisfies certain requirements. Those requirements  
incude the "topological" distance between the actual node and another  
specified node. As you surely understand this distance is really  
intensive to compute, so i'm searching for new ways to get something  
similar but less expensive. I thought i could use the DBpedia ontology  
and to do something like this:

1 map the actual node to his dbpedia ontology class;
2 map the specified node to his class;
3 calculate the distance between the classes in the ontology (wich is  
smaller than the set of instances).

I can do this because i don't need the full path between the nodes but  
just a value that represents the distance (in this case i think i can  
call it "semantic distance").

Now, i don't know where to start from for doing this (my software is  
in java). Wich dump should i use? Anyone knows reliable opensource  
libraries for managing owl (i never used it before so i'm really new  
to it)? Is there some kind of limitation i'm not aware of that can  
stop me doing what i described?I think i should use the "ontology  
types" dataset for the mappings...

If someone can clarify everything for me i would be really grateful.

Regards,
Piero 

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