On 5 September 2011 00:33, Paolo Castagna <castagna.li...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > first of all, it's good to see Any23 try to come into the Apache incubator. > > Michele Mostarda wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > > > On 4 September 2011 10:32, Nick Kew <n...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> On 3 Sep 2011, at 16:01, Davide Palmisano wrote: > >> > >>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/Any23Proposal > >> Hmmm. Could've done with something like that a decade or so ago. > >> It's been a while since I worked with the semweb, but I might take > >> an interest. > >> > > > > We hope so! > > > > > >> How would Any23 relate to well-known semweb libraries such as > >> Redland & family? > > > > > > Currently we use Sesame [1], which is an RDF library really similar to > Jena. > > Could you expand on the reasons which made you choose Sesame for Any23? > In particular, what's missing in Jena which is needed by Any23 or what > you don't like? (It might get fixed. ;-)) > Good question. When we started working on Any23, the Sesame library was more modularized and documented and there was also a full Maven support. Today much of these reasons are no longer valid. > > Increasing code reused and maximizing interaction between Apache projects > (even if in the incubation phase) is, IMHO, a good thing. > Completely agree. > > Paolo > > > > > > >> Your proposal lists a couple of users: did they > >> develop it to meet a need for which there was previously no solution? > >> > > > > When we started writing Any23 there were no other Open Source solutions > > covering all the specifications we do, ATM we can affirm with strong > > confidence > > that this is still true. > > > > We carefully follow development of new RDF related specifications > > in particular for metadata annotation to provide new data extractors > ready > > to > > be experimented by industry and academic environment. > > > > The best > > > > Mic > > > > [1] http://www.openrdf.org/ > > > > > >> -- > >> Nick Kew > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Michele Mostarda Senior Software Engineer mail: m...@michelemostarda.com skype: michele.mostarda twitter: micmos fbk : http://wed.fbk.eu/en/people deri: https://dev.deri.ie/confluence/display/~mmostarda site: http://www.michelemostarda.com
