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On 14/09/15 16:17, Adam Fuchs wrote:
> Thanks again for the healthy discussion on Rya. With that, I would like to
> call a VOTE for accepting Rya as a new incubator project.
>
> The proposal text is included below, and is posted on the wiki here:
> https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RyaProposal
>
> The discussion thread on Rya starts here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201509.mbox/%3CCALt5_xJKtRcUr3WGjfrY77DYWF0-8DWi%3DzyS7hrMFTg%2BYAORjQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> The vote will be open until Thu Sep 17 15:15:00 UTC 2015.
>
> [ ] +1 accept Rya in the Incubator
> [ ] ±0
> [ ] -1 because...
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
> = Rya Proposal =
> == Abstract ==
> Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> supports SPARQL queries.
>
> == Proposal ==
> Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built on top of Accumulo. Rya
> uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing
> techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes. Rya
> provides fast and easy access to the data through SPARQL, a conventional
> query mechanism for RDF data.
>
> == Background ==
> RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard used in describing
> resources on the Web. The smallest data unit is a triple consisting of
> subject, predicate, and object. Using this framework, it is very easy to
> describe any resource, not just Web related. For example, if you want to
> say that Alice is a professor, you can represent this as an RDF triple like
> (Alice, rdf:type, Professor). In general, RDF is an open world framework
> that allows anyone to make any statement about any resource, which makes it
>   a popular choice for expressing a large variety of data.
>
> RDF is used in conjunction with the Web Ontology Language (OWL). OWL is a
> framework for describing models or ontologies for RDF. It defines concepts,
> relationships, and/or structure of RDF documents. These models can be used
> to 'reason/infer' information about entities within a given domain. For
> example, you can express that a Professor is a sub class of Faculty,
> (Professor, rdfs:subClassOf, Faculty) and knowing that (Alice, rdf:type,
> Professor), it can be inferred that (Alice, rdf:type, Faculty).
>
> SPARQL is an RDF query language. Similar with SQL, SPARQL has SELECT and
> WHERE clauses; however, it is based on querying and retrieving RDF triples.
>
> Work on Rya, a large scale distributed system for  storing and querying RDF
> data, started in 2010.
>
> == Rationale ==
> With the increase in data size, there is a need for scalable systems for
> storing and retrieving RDF data in a cluster of nodes. We believe that Rya
> can fulfill that role. We expect that communities within government, health
> care, finance, and others who generate large amounts of RDF data will be
> most interested in this project.
>
>  From its inception, the project operated with an Apache-style license, but
> it was open to mostly US government-related projects only. We believe that
> having the project and the development open for all will benefit both the
> project and the interested communities.
>
> == Current Status ==
> The project source code and documentation are currently hosted in a private
> repository on Github. New users are added to the repository upon request.
>
> === Meritocracy ===
> Meritocracy is the model that we currently follow, and we want to build a
> larger and more diverse developer community by becoming an Apache project.
>
> === Community ===
> Rya has being building a community of users and developers for the past 3
> years. There is currently an active workgroup with monthly meetings and the
> number of participants in the meeting is increasing.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> The core developers are a diverse group of people who are either government
> employees or former / current government contractors from different
> companies.
>
> === Alignment ===
> Rya is built on top of Accumulo, an Apache project.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned Products ===
> There is a very small risk of becoming orphaned. The current contributors
> are strongly committed to the project, there is a large enough number of
> developers interested in contributing to the project, and we believe that
> the support for the project will continue to grow from the interested
> communities.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> The initial committers have various degrees of experience with open source
> projects - from very new to experienced. This project was open source
> within government from the beginning. We are aware that it will be
> different and more difficult functioning in a real open source environment.
> We are enthusiastic and committed to learning the Apache way and being
> successful in operating under Apache's development process.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current list of developers form a heterogeneous group, with people for
> academia, government, and industry, collaborating from distributed
> geographic locations. We aim to expand the list of contributors with the
> help of the Apache incubation process.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Many but not all of the developers working on the project are salaried
> employees, paid to work on this project. They will continue to contribute
> to the open source project. Some of the initial committers continued as
> volunteers even if no longer employed to work on this project and they plan
> to continue supporting the project.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> Rya uses Apache Accumulo, Hadoop, Zookeeper, Maven.
>
>   *Apache Jena API or Apache Commons RDF API could become the RDF API used
> by Rya, but such a decision was not made.
>   *Apache Clerezza is database/triple store agnostic, and as such could be
> complementary to Rya.
>   *Apache Stanbol focuses on providing semantic services, while Rya focuses
> on providing a distributed triple store solution, with support for SPARQL
> and OWL reasoning.
>   *Apache Marmotta provides an implementation of a Linked Data Platform, and
> overlaps in some of the goals and functionality with Rya (RDF triple store,
> SPARQL support among others). There are many opportunities for
> collaboration with these projects and we are looking forward to such a
> collaboration.
>
> === Apache Brand ===
> Rya has generated interest in the government. It also generated interest
> within academia and industry. We believe that everyone could benefit from
> having Rya as an open source project. Due to its strong ties to Accumulo,
> an Apache project, and due to the values of the Apache Foundation, we
> believe that Apache incubator is the right place for Rya.
>
> == Documentation ==
> Two peer-reviewed publications [1,2] about Rya were published in 2012 and
> 2015. More documentation is available in the code.
>
> [1] Roshan Punnoose, Adina Crainiceanu, David Rapp. [[
> http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/research/Rya%5FCloudI%32%30%31%32.pdf|Rya:
> A Scalable RDF Triple Store for the Clouds]]. Proceedings of the 1st
> International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence, Pages 4:1-4:8, August 2012
>
> [2] Roshan Punnoose, Adina Crainiceanu, David Rapp. [[
> http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/adina/research/Rya_ISjournal2013.pdf|SPARQL in
> the Clouds Using Rya]]. Information Systems, Volume 48, Pages 181-195,
> March 2015 (Available online 23 July 2013)
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The code is currently in a private Github repository, due to security and
> IP review processes. We intend to open it up via transferring the code to
> an ASF repository.
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The source code has been released under the Apache License, Version 2.
> Software grant, and CCLAs have been submitted. ICLAs for initial committers
> have been submitted or are in progress.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
>   * [[http://rdf4j.org|OpenRDF Sesame]] (BSD license)
>   * [[http://www.geomesa.org/|GeoMesa]] (Apache License, Version 2.0)
>   * [[https://accumulo.apache.org/|Accumulo]] (Apache License, Version 2.0)
>   * [[https://hadoop.apache.org/|Hadoop]] (Apache License, Version 2.0)
>   * [[https://pig.apache.org/|Pig]] (Apache License, Version 2.0)
>   * [[http://tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org/|TinkerPop]] (Apache License,
> Version 2.0)
>
> == Cryptography ==
> The proposal does not involve any cryptographic code.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
>   * private@rya.incubator.apache.org
>   * dev@rya.incubator.apache.org
>   * commits@rya.incubator.apache.org
>
> === Git Repository ===
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-rya.git
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> JIRA Rya
>
> == Initial Committers ==
>   * Roshan Punnoose, roshanp at gmail dot com
>   * David Rapp, dnrapp at ncsu dot edu
>   * Adina Crainiceanu, adinancr at gmail dot com
>   * Aaron Mihalik, aaron.mihalik at gmail dot com
>   * Puja Valiyil, pujav65 at gmail dot com
>   * Jennifer Brown, jennifer.brown at parsons dot com
>   * Steve Wagner, steve.r.wagner at gmail dot com
>
> == Affiliations ==
>   * Roshan Punnoose, Enlighten IT Consulting
>   * David Rapp, North Carolina State University
>   * Adina Crainiceanu, US Naval Academy
>   * Aaron Mihalik, Parsons
>   * Puja Valiyil, Parsons
>   * Jennifer Brown, Parsons
>   * Steve Wagner, Enlighten IT Consulting
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
>   * Adam Fuchs, ASF Member, afuchs at apache dot org
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
>   * Josh Elser josh dot elser at gmail dot com
>   * Edward J. Yoon edwardyoon at apache dot org
>   * Sean Busbey busbey at cloudera dot com
>
> We are seeking additional mentors
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> Apache Incubator
>


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