Re: [SMW-devel] RDF Import

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

On 07/02/2011 21:33, Samuel Lampa wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 10:20 PM, Samuel Lampa wrote:
>> I'm sure far from everything is perfectly thought out in RDFIO, but
>> maybe it can be a useful starting point work for similar things like this.
>
> Thinking aloud now: .... Maybe, as much as there has recently been
> discussions about merging efforts to provide a more generalized/
> integrated SPARQL/RDF store functionality [1], it might be a good time
> to think also about a more generalized/integrated RDF/OWL import
> functionality too?

I agree, and the former is really a prerequisite of the latter. Ideally, 
SMW could thus obtain access to external Linked Data (cached locally for 
query answering). Ways of dynamically locating and pulling such data 
have already been explored in the SMW-based ShortiPedia prototype 
(shortipedia.org).

In any case (to answer Benedikt's initial email), the old vocabulary 
import functionality and the equivalent URI method both affect the RDF 
export only, and do not contribute to the data as viewed in SMW (e.g. 
via queries). This whole aspect of SMW needs to be rethought.

Markus