Hi Christoph, yes we will publish more background material on SPIN in the next few weeks or months. A good place to monitor is the Composing the Semantic Web blog [1] in which I will post use cases and other background on SPIN in the next few days.
However, I believe SPIN is very easy to learn if you have some familiarity with - SPARQL and - Object-oriented modeling/programming A good place to start is to install the TBC beta1 and use the workspace that is included in it (or re-run the Import RDF/OWL library from the web wizard. This includes an example file KennedysSPIN which illustrates all major features of SPIN as a kind of Hello World example. The help pages of TBC also contain some background, as do [2] and [3]. And yes, TopBraid includes an API for SPIN. In the beginning this will assume that you implement your use cases as TopBraid plugins. There is also a free web service that anyone can use to convert between SPARQL and SPIN syntax [4] I hope this helps for now - more will follow. Holger [1] http://composing-the-semantic-web.blogspot.com/ [2] http://spinrdf.org [3] http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/composer/spin.html [4] http://sparqlpedia.org/spinrdfconverter.html On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Christoph wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the announcement. I am looking forward for the final > release :) > Do you plan to publish a tutorial for using SPIN and is there an API > to access it from an application? > > Thnaks a lot, Christoph > > On 31 Dez. 2008, 23:01, TQ <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Dec 31, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Holger Knublauch >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Dear users, >> >>> We are pleased to announce the first public beta release of TopBraid >>> Composer 3.0, Standard and Maestro Editions. >> >>> It is available for download from >>> http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/composer/tbc-3.0.0.html >> >>> This is the first public release of TopBraid since version 2.6.2 in >>> August >>> 2008. Since last release we have made substantial improvements to >>> the >>> products and also made significant changes to our development >>> processes, >>> enabling TopQuadrant to better respond to the needs of our rapidly >>> growing >>> customer base. We have increased the size of the product team (among >>> others, >>> the Jena architect Jeremy Carroll has joined us from HP Labs) and we >>> have >>> better aligned the different facets of the TopBraid Suite product >>> family. >> >>> Our new release strategy is to have fewer releases than before, >>> but to >>> subject each release to a more rigorous test process. For 3.0 this >>> process >>> includes two rounds of beta releases. We expect the second beta to >>> come out >>> in January and the official 3.0 release in February. >> >>> Major new capabilities in TopBraid Composer 3.0 include: >>> - Support for the SPARQL Inferencing Notation (SPIN) [1] >>> - Incremental SPARQL-based inferencing using SPIN >>> - Constraint checking at edit time using SPIN >>> - Support for named graphs in AllegroGraph and Sesame 2 >>> - Forms now contain incoming reference (inverse) widgets >>> - Significant improvements to SPARQLMotion/Web services >>> - Support for sharing SPARQL queries on SPARQLpedia [2] >>> - Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements >> >>> Beside Composer the TopBraid Live and TopBraid Ensemble products >>> have >>> undergone a major redesign. These changes will be rolled out >>> incrementally >>> over the beta phase. Beta 1 includes significant improvements to the >>> TopBraid Live's web services support via SPARQLMotion. Starting with >>> Beta 2 >>> a personal test version of the TopBraid Ensemble will be bundled >>> with the >>> TopBraid Composer Maestro Edition. TopBraid Ensemble 3.0 has evolved >>> from a >>> specific application to an application assembly toolkit. Users can >>> select, >>> configure and wire components to quickly assemble a variety of >>> dynamic >>> model-based Rich Internet Applications. >> >>> Please read further details and the installation instructions on the >>> download site. >> >>> Kind regards and best wishes for 2009 >>> Holger & the TopBraid Suite development team >> >>> [1]http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/composer/spin.html >>> [2]http://sparqlpedia.org- Zitierten Text ausblenden - >> >> - Zitierten Text anzeigen - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Composer Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-composer-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
