[RDF] RDF modules

[Jonas Liljegren]

Hi!


I (Jonas Liljegren) and Stefan Andersson has under some time planned
discussed and prototyped RDF programs in Perl.

I have activly participated in the RDF Intrest Group and have a demo for a
prototype I constructed a year ago:
	http://jonas.liljegren.org/perl/proj/rdf/schema_editor/


The project is called Wraf, and has a page at http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/ and
a place at SourceForge: 
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/wraf/

The goals can seem very ambitious. But I'm also a very dedicated for
this.  And the modules will be useful even with only the basic
functionality.

I recently made a progress report (distributed mainly to the RDF list):
	http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/presentation/status.txt



I have two reson for writing to you:


  1. We (the community) have to decide on a name for the library.  

I wrote to modules@cpan.org two days ago and havn't got an answer yet.  I
would like this to be the main RDF module and call it just RDF, because
it's built to be extended with new functionality. For example with
RDF::Interface::LDAP or RDF::Interface::XML or anything else.  Instead
of calling the module RDF, it could be called RDF::Wraf. But I would like
just RDF better.

Many modules is now located in the XML:: space.  The Wraf RDF library
doesn't have anything specificaly to do with XML.  It's built on the RDF
data model with interfaces to diffrent storage systems. One of them will
be the XML serialization syntax. But the primary storage is a relational
database.  That's why I don't think that this module belongs in the
XML:: namespace.

I'm waiting for the final name before I can initiate the CVS archive at
SourceForge. (The existing code can be found at 
http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/src/ )


 2. It would be nice with some publicity.

I haven't been active on any XML mailing lists because I'm using DBI
rather than plain text files.  But there may be some intrest at some
lists.  I couldn't find any links on the perlxml.com page... Could you
recommend any lists/groups/pages?


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