Hi all, I'm Ying Jiang, a Chinese PhD student from Wuhan University, major in Semantic Web. As a huge fan of Jena, I'd like to work on a GSoC project this year.
Here's my self introduction related to Jena: - Jena Use: Actually, I've been using Jena since 2004. These years, most of my work is related to Chinese ontology development and its usage in different Chinese domains (e.g. finance, library, history). I won the best student paper award of ECDL 2008, with the paper "Towards Ontology-Based Chinese E-Government Digital Archives Knowledge Management". I'm a moderator of the most-heated Chinese BBS forum of Semantic Web (http://bbs.w3china.org/list.asp?boardid=2), in which I've been actively answering the Jena related questions since 2006, with thousands of replies helping Chinese student using Jena. As one of the earliest Chinese users of Jena, I'm quite familiar with its architecture, api and the components. - Jena Development: When Jena 1.x was under HP lab, I sometimes got stunned with my work, due to its unstable bugs. I once studied its source code, and resolved some ones related to Builtin primitives of rules, batch/transaction operators, and so on. They were tiny ones and resolved in later versions, so I did not submit the fixes to the Jena community. For GSoC 2013, I think I can contribute to Jena in many ways. At least I'm interested in the following 2 issues marked as "gosc2013" in JIRA: 1) SPARQL Updates are not cancelable 2) GeoARQ: a geo location property function for ARQ I also saw Rob asked the student in the other thread to check out other open feature and improvement requests of Jena. I've went through them just now. But I'm not sure which one is best for me, and can be done within the 3-month GSoC program. I think it's OK for me except working on Fuseki. I'm more interested in pure Java develpment, instead of web application development. Can you give me some suggestion of choosing the right project? Which project is with high priority and would be accepted with better chance from the perspective of Jena community? Any more detailes about the 1) and 2) projects? Best, Ying Jiang
