John; Seems like a good plan, and we don't mind. One point that may make this clearer - or at least give you places for further examples. SPIN is basically a wrapper technology for SPARQL, which is the query language for RDF/OWL. Anything SPARQL does is something that can be used in SPIN. In particular, SPIN does the following on top of SPARQL:
1) Stores SPARQL queries in RDF syntax, hence allowing one to store queries (a "library" of queries) in the model itself. 2) Specifies when a query should be executed. I.e. when running inferences with TopSPIN, queries specified for a class (in spin:rule) are applied to all instances of the class and its subclasses. 3) Provides a way to abstract SPARQL queries into rules and templates that can be called by other SPARQL queries. 4) Provides a way to define constraint violations in spin:constraint, again applied to all class instances and its subclasses. This is invoked by turning on constraint violation warnings in Composer or calling the SPARQLMotion module. Other things as well, but I'm just throwing these out as added perspective to see if it help you at all. -- Scott On May 5, 7:18 am, John Perdoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott, Holger > > Thank you very much for the replies and the links provided. You asked > me to let you know which topics are unlclear, which in reply I have to > say that none are in the context that they are provided. I suppose my > problems in getting any further towards a complete understanding arise > from the fact that there are only one or two examples, and whilst I > understand these , I am finding it hard to transfer this knowledge to > another ontology. I shall re read and redo all the documentation > provided again and if you dont mind, come back you with any more > specific questions. > > Regards > > John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. 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-users?hl=en
