OK, I think I can answer my own question here. in the java doc of version 1 it is explicitly mentioned that :
"This API is derived from the SiRPAC API, most recently maintained by Sergey Melnik. It borrows from the subject centric approach of David Megginson's DATAX API and the cascading calls style of JDom." https://web.archive.org/web/20001109195300/http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com:80/people/bwm/rdf/jena/javadoc/index.html On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Marco Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > great Andy, thank you. this will come in handy for us and future > generations to trace the evolution of the Jena effort. > > btw was SiRPAC a direct precursor to the work at HP in Bristol or was > the use of a java servlet containers generally in the air at the time > and an obvious choice for a RDF processing engine on the web? > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 21/11/17 18:08, Marco Neumann wrote: >>> >>> congratulations to the entire Jena community it's a great open source >>> for many projects, products and research activities around the world. >>> >>> is there a copy of the first release available with source code >>> (http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/rdf/jena 4/2001)? >> >> >> I have many of the Jena1 zips (I've just uploaded them to SF) but not all. I >> have found mention in the Web Archive of 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 but whether these >> were released, I'm not clear. >> >> I don't have any before Jena 1 (January 2001) - I think there was at least a >> 0.9. >> >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Aug/0128.html >> >> The first release dated after the move to SF was 1.3.0. >> >> Jena 1.0 (January 2001) is a whole 983,563 bytes zip file. >> >> I have a zip from 09/2000 (courtesy of dajobe) that I don't know the version >> number of. >> >> If anyone happens to have copies lying around, please do send them to me. >> >> Andy >> >> >>> >>> Best, >>> Marco >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Today, November 20th, 2017, is the sixteenth anniversary of the >>>> registration >>>> of Jena as a SourceForge project. >>>> >>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/jena/ >>>> 2001-11-20 >>>> >>>> The entire code history up until the migration to git is available in >>>> Apache >>>> SVN - from CVS at SF, SVN at SF and SVN at Apache. >>>> >>>> Andy >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > > > --- > Marco Neumann > KONA -- --- Marco Neumann KONA
