Re: [Semediawiki-user] [SMW-devel] SMW 1.6 entering testing phase

[Dan B. <dan...@gm...>]

On 22 May 2011 16:10, Markus Krötzsch <ma...@se...> wrote:
> Dear SMW users and developers,
>
> work on SMW 1.6 has made tremendous progress in the past few weeks

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> == Main changes for users ==
>
> * Significantly extended database backend support:
> SMW now works with PostgreSQL and with any RDF store that supports
> SPARQL and SPARQL Update. I had sent details about the latter to this
> list earlier

I can't seem to find that email. Can you direct me to it?

I'm keen to know more about the new SPARQL endpoint support, as I
think this is very exciting.


> Support for using the PHP-based interface of the RAP RDF
> store is discontinued. The new SPARQL functions change also prepare SMW
> for loading RDF data from other Web sources (not implemented yet).

Since SMW is now processing SPARQL / RDF internally (I'm guessing),
does this mean that we can (in theory?) query a given endpoint using
#ask? I'm curious if this would require synchronization of the data in
the endpoint (as some docs seem to suggest), or if ad-hock endpoints
can now be queried using #ask.


Thanks for all the great and continuing work on this project!

Dan.