[TripleStore] Re: SWAD-Europe Report: Mapping Semantic Web Data with RDBMSes

[Chris Croome]

Hi Dave

I have copied this to the (so quite it's almost dead!) TripleStore
list, I hope that's OK.

On Tue 18-Feb-2003 at 12:04:02PM +0000, Dave Beckett wrote:
> >>>Chris Croome said:
> > 
> > You probably won't have come across this:
> > 
> >   Triplestore
> >   http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Triplestore
> 
> I think I had actually...

Oh, cool :-)

> It seems somewhere between an RDF system and an SQL system, more
> like a foundation than particular RDF-based?  

Yes, I think that sums it up well.

> It could be used for Linda, Tuplespaces, JSpaces or other things
> that aren't necessary RDF.  This isn't really a criticism, since
> it is nice to get a focused app that deals with the messy SQL
> issues.
> 
> I was more concentrating on decoding/testing various RDF apps and
> seeing what schemas they used internally - can be a bit of a
> nightmare of dependencies.
> 
> Maybe the app that uses TripleStore would be interesting to see :)

It sure would! We haven't yet created one and I'm not aware of
anyone using it yet -- we do plan to use it to build applications
with when we get around to it :-) 

All the best

Chris

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