I’ve added “direct data links” in the style Andy outlines below to this 
JENA-624 PR, with tests. 

Feedback eagerly desired!

---
A. Soroka
The University of Virginia Library

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Does this seem like a reasonable approach? It should allow users to
>> build up their data by whatever means they like, including using
>> inferencing models to generate assertions, then add them to the
>> in-memory container.
> 
> That's an interesting possibility that hadn't occurred to me.  It's a copy-in 
> and the implications of that will need to be clear.
> 
> Just relying on ja:MemoryModel and ja:externalContent for the cases of 
> loading files risks a load-copy though.  It could be "optimzied"
> 
> What about allowing files to be directly pointed to from the assembler for 
> the ja:MemoryDataset?
> 
> Example:
> 
> -----------------------------------
> @prefix ja:    <http://jena.hpl.hp.com/2005/11/Assembler#> .
> 
> <test:simpleExample>  a  ja:MemoryDataset ;
>        ja:data          <file:///some/data.trig> ;
>        ja:data          <file:///some/data.ttl> ;
>        ja:graph         [ ja:data <file:///some/data2.ttl> ] ;
>        ja:graph
>             [ ja:graphName  <test:namedGraphExample> ;
>               ja:data <file:///some/data3.ttl> ] .
> -----------------------------------
> 
> The ability to load trig, NQuads in the dataset:
> 
>        ja:data          <file:///some/data.trig> ;
> 
> If a triples form is given, it loads the default graph. This is what Jena 
> does already.  These are both RDFDataMgr.read(dataset, file) ;
> 
> The ja:graph for specific graphs:
> Default graph (uniformity):
> 
>        ja:graph         [ ja:data <file:///some/data2.ttl> ] ;
> 
> and named graphs
>        ja:graph
>                [ ja:graphName  <test:namedGraphExample> ;
>                  ja:data <file:///some/data3.ttl> ] .
> 
> I like the build-copy idea - these also add the core tasks of loading a file 
> into a  dataset in a direct way.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
>       Andy
> 
>> 
>> --- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library
> 
> Prefixes !!!!!!!!!!!!!1
> 
> @prefix ja:    <http://jena.hpl.hp.com/2005/11/Assembler#> .
> 
> <test:simpleExample>  a  ja:MemoryDataset ;
>        ja:defaultGraph  <test:defaultGraphDef> ;
>        ja:namedGraph    <test:namedGraphDef> .
> 
> <test:defaultGraphDef>
>        a           ja:MemoryModel ;
>        ja:content  [ ja:externalContent  <file:///some/triples.nt> ] .
> 
> <test:namedGraphDef>  a  ja:MemoryModel ;
>        ja:content
>             [ ja:externalContent  <file:///some/other/triples.nt> ] ;
>        ja:graphName  <test:namedGraphExample> .

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