Hello,
I'm interested in contributing to Jena in Google Summer of Code 2014.
I'm a computer science Ph.D. student at North Carolina State
University. I have studied the Semantic Web very passionately, as I
feel it is a wonderful vision. I have taken a course in it, worked as a
research assistant on the Protein Ontology project (
http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro/pro.shtml ), and developed some open
source software for it. I have used Jena a lot.
I have some ideas for JENA-624 (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-624 ), although I am very
interested in directions you see for it, and I would be glad to work on
other issues. There are a lot of ideas I have had for my Semantic Web
software that are related to Jena. I would be very glad to contribute
to the Jena project in GSoC, but I would also be glad to contribute
anything in my existing software that would be useful to Jena. Well, I
realize that I am a bit late posting here for GSoC, and I am hurrying to
get my software's web site and article in a presentable form.
I came up with a very simple interpretation of object-oriented
programming, similar to connections other people have made, that treats
all object-oriented data as triples in RDF. It means in part that we
can run SPARQL queries on any object-oriented data. I have thought it
would be very good if we could use ARQ to run SPARQL on main memory in
object-oriented programs and on object databases. I found that we can
post object-oriented data directly on the Semantic Web without having to
write any sort of mapping like D2RQ: either by translating
object-oriented data into an existing Semantic Web format, or by setting
up SPARQL endpoints on object databases. Well, I am very interested if
you are aware if any of this has been done before.
Regarding JENA-624, I have in mind how to create implementations of the
Jena Model interface (com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model) backed by Java
data. I have been thinking that it might help to run SPARQL on Java
data with ARQ if we could implement Model backed by Java data. I am
wondering if you think it would be applicable to JENA-624, or to any
other issues, if we could create implementations of Model in this
manner. There could be both in-memory models with Java data, and disk
models with object databases.
So, I would be very glad to contribute.
Thanks,
Tim Armstrong
