[MISC] Re: [MOBY-l] RDQL and moby registry?

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi all, 

it seems that some of my messages from last night never got through... 
I'm re-sending my answer:

It should be possible, in principle, to search MOBY Central using RDQL
already.  There is an RDF representation of the registry at:

http://biomoby.org/RESOURCES/MOBY-S/ServiceInstances

It is auto-generated, so it should always be up-to-date.  AFAIK there is
no reason that you couldn't just do RDQL searches on that document.

Let me know if it works for you.

M



On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:19, Phillip Lord wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Jensen <michael at acutrans.net> writes:
> 
>   Michael> What is the potential application of RDQL with the current
>   Michael> registry system, or future revisions of the system, and do
>   Michael> you think it will prove useful?
> 
>   Michael> (RDQL is a RDF query language basically)
> 
> 
>   Michael> Here is a demo of RDQL. There is a perl module for RDQL
>   Michael> too, I noticed.
> 
>   Michael> http://www3.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/rdfapi-php/test/custom_rdql_test.php
> 
>   Michael> Just hit "submit me!" and it searches for the creator of
>   Michael> the RDF document.
> 
> 
> I don't know whether Mark is putting a RDF/RDQL backend onto moby, but
> within the mygrid project we have created a similar semantically
> searchable registry. The current version, written by Pinar Alper, uses
> a RDF backend (using Jena) and gets all of its query functionality
> through RDQL. We've also used RDF/RDQL for storing 
> 
> It works quite well. 
> 
> So yes there is definitely a potential application for RDQL within
> future versions of moby. Mark can say for himself if he is going to
> try it. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Phil
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Mark Wilkinson (mwilkinson at mrl.ubc.ca)
University of British Columbia iCAPTURE Centre