It is open sourced under the BSD License
On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Marco Neumann wrote:

> what's your license model for Parliament?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Rob Battle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Parliament implements the Jena graph interface.  Query access to the indexes 
>> is provided via ARQ property functions.  Data is added to the indexes via a 
>> mechanism that wraps a Jena GraphListeners  In fact, our indexes should be 
>> work on non-Parliament graphs, although we do some query optimization that 
>> relies on information provided by our Parliament graph.
>> 
>> 
>> -rob
>> 
>> On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Marco Neumann wrote:
>> 
>>> I've organized a session with Dave Kolas at MIT/ W3C [1] earlier this
>>> year and Parliament looks indeed great, it already uses PostGIS for
>>> the spatial queries. I am not sure how Parliament relates to the Jena
>>> API though.
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.vimeo.com/23850413
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Rob Battle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> As Dave mentioned, Parliament [1] supports geospatial and temporal 
>>>> indexing.  We index data using the geo-owl ontologies [2] for geospatial 
>>>> data and OWL time [3] for temporal data (although only ProperIntervals and 
>>>> DateTimeIntervals are supported, not DateTimeInstants).  The spatial index 
>>>> supports predicates corresponding to RCC-8 and OGC simple features as 
>>>> property functions and can use PostGIS or a memory-mapped r-tree as an 
>>>> index.
>>>> 
>>>> If you are interested, Parliament also has preliminary support for the 
>>>> proposed OGC GeoSPARQL [4] standard for geospatial queries over RDF (note 
>>>> that this is different from http://www.geosparql.org).
>>>> We also have an unpublished article [5] which describes GeoSPARQL, 
>>>> evaluates some existing research/implementations in the geospatial 
>>>> semantic web, and describes the GeoSPARQL implementation in Parliament.
>>>> 
>>>> The Parliament geosparql branch is located at [6]
>>>> 
>>>> -rob
>>>> 
>>>> [1] http://parliament.semwebcentral.org
>>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo/#owl
>>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/
>>>> [4] http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=44722
>>>> [5] 
>>>> http://semwebcentral.org/scm/viewvc.php/*checkout*/branches/geosparql/paper/swjarticle.pdf?root=parliament
>>>> [6] https://projects.semwebcentral.org/svn/parliament/branches/geosparql  
>>>> (username/password anonsvn)
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> There is also Parliament [1] which offers both geospatial and temporal
>>>>> indexing graphs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dave
>>>>> 
>>>>> [1] http://parliament.semwebcentral.org/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 13:08 +0100, Paolo Castagna wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>> great to hear that, you are welcome.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Something similar using Lucene Spatial capabilities instead of
>>>>>> a proper GIS is here (it's just a less than two days hack):
>>>>>> https://github.com/castagna/GeoARQ
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I was planning to post something along the lines of "making
>>>>>> easier to plug LARQ or similar into ARQ", but unfortunately I do
>>>>>> not a good idea (yet).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It would be good to enable third parties to add their own property
>>>>>> functions (that's possible) which use custom indexes and need to
>>>>>> update those indexes as triples/quads are added/removed to the
>>>>>> underlying RDF store.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> More on this later, in the meantime: welcome.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Paolo
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Alexander Dutton wrote:
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>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We've currently got a lot of (simple) geospatial data in
>>>>>>> <http://data.clarosnet.org/> (served behind the scenes by Fuseki).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We'd like to do some geospatial indexing magic, and were wondering
>>>>>>> about writing something a bit like LARQ that will pull out things like
>>>>>>> geo:Points and WKT literals, place them in a PostGIS-flavoured DB, and
>>>>>>> then implements something like GeoSPARQL (<http://geosparql.org/>).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Has anyone started doing this or something similar? I'm happy to give
>>>>>>> it a go and I'm sure my employer would be happy to contribute it back
>>>>>>> to Jena and the ASF. My plan was to go through the LARQ codebase to
>>>>>>> work out how it hooks itself in, and use that as a model.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Yours,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - --
>>>>>>> Alexander Dutton
>>>>>>> Metamorphoses Project Developer, Claros
>>>>>>> Oxford University Computing Services, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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>>> 
>>> --
>>> Marco Neumann
>>> KONA
>>> 
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