From general-return-31313-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Mon Sep 5 09:09:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3348A8AC0 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 09:09:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 232 invoked by uid 500); 5 Sep 2011 09:09:29 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 98766 invoked by uid 500); 5 Sep 2011 09:09:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 98746 invoked by uid 99); 5 Sep 2011 09:09:24 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:09:24 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of michele.mostarda@gmail.com designates 209.85.161.47 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.161.47] (HELO mail-fx0-f47.google.com) (209.85.161.47) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:09:17 +0000 Received: by fxg11 with SMTP id 11so3531735fxg.6 for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:08:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=KpnlEFIkT1xYKlzcO8DIq0TgIVqUZTUumq9FTXISGDA=; b=uLwRTEPuvvlQtGZtaA/TXWHWf2+EfrkRGbtF8P9Ds4vqugTFGaqAGzx+oFl2shmisb gJH9tmrExmb1xU9eQ4+S8rJGPW5XeedK27F1J2aR1J04bavQaQbNOfm39bnx4E70u0ND eD9I0O7t+LjQbqdmX1TYJJrjipDpWASVw4eSo= Received: by 10.223.18.73 with SMTP id v9mr1628033faa.70.1315213737060; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:08:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.106.13 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 02:08:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E63FCC7.4080508@googlemail.com> References: <57E909C6-EE35-4A78-978D-1FFC2597095F@apache.org> <4E63FCC7.4080508@googlemail.com> From: Michele Mostarda Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:08:37 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Any23 to join the incubator To: general@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00151744829a99eb9f04ac2e0fcf X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --00151744829a99eb9f04ac2e0fcf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 5 September 2011 00:33, Paolo Castagna 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 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-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org > > -- Michele Mostarda Senior Software Engineer mail: me@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 --00151744829a99eb9f04ac2e0fcf--