Re: [SMW-devel] Reminder of Architecture Overview update

[Markus K. <ma...@se...>]

On 25/09/11 05:18, Samuel Lampa wrote:
> Sorry for repeating this, but wanted to remind about the need to update
> the rest of the Architecture Overview article [1]. I guess that even
> just updating the text that is there (there are two sections not updated
> to 1.6) would go a long way?
>
> The problem now is that even parts supposed to be updated for 1.6
> changes still contain pointers to the supposedly ditched SMWDataValue
> for example (see: [2]), which makes it somewhat confusing.

Indeed, I will see what I can do.

>
> I'd love to have a shortlist of the foundational classes I need to know
> to represent triple data with SMW classes ... Should I basically be fine
> with SMWDataItems (elements) and SMWSemanticData (aggregates of facts
> per subject)? ... or is there some other foundational class I should add
> to the shortlist?

For representing input data, that's all. Query outputs are represented 
in SMWQueryResult (basically an iterator for a 3D-array) but the data 
returned there is also based on DIs.

RDF data is represented by a smaller set of classes under SMWExpElement. 
These classes represent triples for the purpose of serialisation (they 
abstract RDF before fixing a concrete syntax such as RDF/XML or Turtle).

Greetings (from the bus back to Oxford),

Markus