Hi John, On Sep 22, 2009, at 8:28 AM, John Kabler wrote:
> > My colleagues and I think that SPIN has some great features. However, > we are curious if there is any project out there to create an open > source library to utilize the language. While we are happy TBC users, > and our client does have a TBL server, our models need to be able to > be utilized by applications that don't utilize COTS components like > TopBraid. Part of the reason our client loves our work is because > full utilization of the models isn't dependent on a single vendor. the TopBraid SPIN API [1] is already open source, and I know of several projects that make use of it. This API has intentionally been designed to be independent from any other TopBraid-related dependencies, so that it can be used in any conceivable Java application including servlets. It just depends on Jena. > > Are there any plans to let the W3C review SPIN as a standard? It > seems to me that it is superior to SWRL for certain purposes due to > the fact that it utilizes SPARQL's higher degree of expressivity. Yes, we plan to approach W3C at some point in time. Right now we are hoping to build some kind of community around it, so that we can provide sufficient evidence of its utility. And yes, I agree that SPIN is superior to SWRL - not just because of the higher expressivity but also because of the lower implementation burden and general availability of SPARQL engines. Another advantage is that SPIN is more natively semantic web based and can even be used with remote SPARQL end points etc. I see the main advantage of SWRL being that it has been established for longer, and therefore some tools (notable Protege) support it. But we have on purpose included SPIN in the TBC Free edition to change this perception as well... Regards, Holger [1] http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/spin/api/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
