hi,

some more questions regarding TBC3:

- what are your plans for support of OWL2?
- what are your plans for support of RIF?
- do you plan to integrate virtuoso like allegro, sesame etc?
- will you add further support for quads (e.g. in the triple view)?

thanks,
thomas



Am 02.01.2009 um 17:58 schrieb Holger Knublauch:

>
> 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 -
>>>
>
>
> >


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