A question I am being asked more frequently by developers who like SPIN, but who are wary of interoperability issues because it is not yet being a standard:
1) Can SPIN be encoded in RIF and transferred to another platform capable of processing RIF without loss of functionality? 2) Can SPIN be encoded as SWRL (or other rules languages) without loss? WIthout looking into this too deeply, I think that the answer in general to these questions is no, because among other things, SPIN can create, and has access to SPARQL extensions that may not exist on a non-spin (non Jena) platform and the scope of SPIN inference can be more flexibly constrained than on other inference engines, so only a subset of SPIN capabilities would be interoperable in this way. A counter argument supporting SPIN interoperability capabilities is that SPIN is open source and is mostly about SPARQL, so it can be easily adapted to to run on other platforms that support SPARQL. Is this how others see this? Thanks Arthur -- 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
