Hello Robert, Thank you so much for your response. It's not so much about the costs associated with the licences, it's a requirement put forth by those funding the project.
Kind Regards, Ninus. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Robert Vesse <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes Stardog may be a commercial product but it is my understanding that like > other triple stores (AllegroGraph, OWLIM, Virtuoso etc) it will have a free > community edition that will have a limited feature set. > > Is open source a hard and fast requirement or do you just not want to pay for > the triple store? Depending on the amount of data you have and the features > you need the free version of one of the mentioned triple stores may be > suitable for your use case > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Khamis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 11:18 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [jena-dev] Re: OWL APIs, Triple Stores, OWL DL Rasoners Reply > More| > > Hello Everyone, > > We are looking for a solution that would allow us to transfer our OWL2 > knowledge base to a full fledged application. > What we are looking for are: > > * An OWL API capable of creating OWL 2 models: The Protege API is > great however comes with much to much overhead, > i.e., the editor related implemanation. Is the Jena api capable of > creating OWL 2 ontology models? Are there any new, > and active ontology APIs currently out there? > > * A triple store capable of storing OWL 2 expressions, and performing > deduction using the widely used reasoners. It is > important for us to support OWL or OWL 2 reasoning on the triple store > level. Much like Sesame does with OWLIM. > The triple store must also be able to inteface with the Pellet reasoner. > > * Interface between the reasoners and the triple stores. I would > assume at this early stage that deduction on the triple > store level using a pellet would be done through an interface of some > sort (e.g., Triple Store -> Jena -> Pellet). If I am > not mistaken, what are some of the soultions used out there for this. > > I have looked into projects such as PelletDB and Allegrograph which > look great however, we are looking for actively > developed open source solutions > > Thanks in Advnace, > > Ninus. > >>> Have you looked at Stardog from Clark&Parsia? > > Hello Alex, > > Thank you so much for your response. Part of the requirements is to use > only open source projects. > It seems like Stardog is a commercial product? > > Thanks in Advance, > > Ninus. >
