Hi there,
Good to hear from you.
> When Jena 1.x was under HP lab,
wow - that was a while ago!
> Can you give me some suggestion of choosing the right project?
I can say more about geospatial query and Jena - I think there is a very
useful module to be written that gives some point-based queries without
getting into full GeoSPARQL which is too complicated for non-specialists.
I'll send a separate email and also one about "cache tables" which are
precomputed query fragments.
Andy
On 14/04/13 05:14, Ying Jiang wrote:
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
