I will look into semantic JSP thing, in the end it might be better
sticking to jenna/java because it would be easier to distribute.

Thanks,
Andrew

> In particular, Semantic JSP may be an option worth looking into. This
> gives you server-side JSP processing with embedded SPARQL.  This means
> your stat package can programmed in Java and run on the server.  There
> is a JSP example in the Help pages.
>
> This also finesses the problem from one of ontology-editors-as-the-
> interface to applications using ontologies in the back-end.
>
> From that point there are many options using TBC-ME/Live.  The
> TopBraid Suite videos (http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/composer/
> videos.html) give a taste, with more coming in TBS 3.0.
>
> In the end, the stat functions do not have to be "in" the ontology.
> Personally, I would be wary of doing all of your processing from
> within a query.  SPARQLMotion different, as data processing is its
> provenience, but overloading a query language (SPARQL or SQL) with a
> lot of processing seems like a mismatch that could lead to complex
> aggregates with performance issues. Again, it's all dependent on what
> kinds of stats you want to produce.
>
> -- Scott
>
> On Feb 2, 8:15 pm, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
>
> > On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:50 PM, AndrewB wrote:
>
> > > Hello Mr. Knublauch
> > >    The company I work for owns a TBCME and  a TBL license.  We will
> > > be using Jenna for much of our math but If I ask my higher ups to
> > > submit something like a feature request do you think there would be
> > > any way we could imbed statistial funcitons into the ontology/sparql,
> > > or possibly in sparql motion?
>
> > Sure. Paying customers get preferred treatment when it comes to new  
> > feature requests. What I would need though is a precise list of  
> > additional functions that you would need.
>
> > > Also I came across some pdf on the web where a guy references a
> > > outside function and it somehow connects to a javascript file on his
> > > web server and does the math there. Cool but ugly solution.
>
> > The next beta will include an extension of SPIN that allows anyone to  
> > define new SPARQL functions using JavaScript. However, for the time  
> > being this would not help you very much because the JavaScript code  
> > would not be allowed to query the triple store (Jena Graph) at  
> > execution time. So for complex operations it would need to get all  
> > values as arguments and then do the math on them. I would be  
> > interested to hear why you would consider such an interpreted (e.g.  
> > JavaScript) solution ugly - it would make it possible for anyone to  
> > create and share SPARQL functions on the semantic web.
>
> > Holger
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