[RDF] RDF modules

[Christian Stamgren]

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From: "Jonas Liljegren" <jonas@paranormal.se>
To: <eisen@pobox.com>
Cc: <rdf@uxn.nu>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 10:39 AM
Subject: [RDF] RDF modules


> Hi!
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> I (Jonas Liljegren) and Stefan Andersson has under some time planned
> discussed and prototyped RDF programs in Perl.
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> 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/
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> The project is called Wraf, and has a page at http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/ =
and
> a place at SourceForge:=20
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wraf/
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> 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.
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> I recently made a progress report (distributed mainly to the RDF =
list):
> http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/presentation/status.txt
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> I have two reson for writing to you:
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>   1. We (the community) have to decide on a name for the library. =20
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I'm waiting for the final name before I can initiate the CVS archive =
at
> SourceForge. (The existing code can be found at=20
> http://www.uxn.nu/wraf/src/ )
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>  2. It would be nice with some publicity.
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> 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?

I would recommend the perl xml mailing list hosted by Activestate..

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Christian Stamgren..
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