Hi Yuri, thank you for your interest. Contributions are very welcome! We plan to use an RDF store as a backend for storing and querying data. This will not completely abolish the use of MySQL tables, but at least all queries should be answered by the triple store (no more SQL-based #ask). We will use SPARQL and SPARQL Update for all communication. SPARQL queries to external endpoints are not planned for the initial phase but adding them will be much easier after all the SPARQL communication methods are in SMW.
I am currently changing the SMW code in various places to make it compatible with such a setup. The first RDF store I will consider is 4Store. How could you contribute to speed this up/make the features more complete? Right now, I could mainly use support with figuring out the best way of formulating queries for achieving certain effects, both with 4Store and with Virtuoso (and any other store people want to use). Example questions of this type (to be answered for each store that we care about): * "Could we use FILTER on URI strings to find URIs that begin with a certain prefix, or is this too slow?" * "Which parts of SPARQL UPDATE are currently (not) supported reliably?" * "Is it generally best to do SPARQL DELETE INSERT for updates, or does the store require us to decompose this into multiple queries? Are there performance differences?" * "What is the best way to implement counting queries on a given store?" (SPARQL 1.1 aggregates are still very preliminary and some stores have custom solutions) I have more of these questions, and they generally need some testing on the real store, so this would be a place where contributors could help (also since there are many different stores people might care about). There will be some more tasks that can be done as soon as I completed some more work on the SMW base architecture: * We would like to support Virtuoso and maybe other stores as well. After 4store works, this should be a rather independent task to try and get it to run with other stores (each store will need some amount of special handling or optimisation, this can be prepared by answering the above SPARQL support questions). * Testing. The more early testers we get, the better for the stability of the code. Regards, Markus On 26/03/11 13:06, Yury Katkov wrote: > Hello everyone! > > We have compared the current solutions for the triple store > integration [1] and found that all those solutions are either > incomplete or use very hard patches of the SMW core. > Recently Markus mentioned that the next version of SMW will be better > integrated with RDF store. Is it possible to get some details about > these planned integration features? We want to contribute to this > work by solving as many related tasks as possible. Such features would > be very useful for our installation of SMW and I believe for the whole > SMW project. > > Sincerely yours, > Yury Katkov > > [1] http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SPARQL_and_RDF_stores_for_SMW > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
