Archive for August, 2008
Kingsley Idehen has again graciously given LinqToRdf some much needed link-love. He mentioned it in a post that was primarily concerned with the issues of mapping between the ontology, relational and object domains. His assertion is that LinqtoRdf, being an offshoot of an ORM related initiative, is reversing the natural order of mappings. He believes [ READ MORE ]
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The semantic web is a GOOD THING by definition – anything that enables us to create smarter software without also having to create Byzantine application software must be a step in the right direction. The problem is – many people have trouble translating the generic term “smarter” into a concrete idea of what they would [ READ MORE ]
LinqToRdf* is a full-featured LINQ** query provider for .NET written in C#. It provides developers with an intuitive way to make queries on semantic web databases. The project has been going for over a year and it’s starting to be noticed by semantic web early adopters and semantic web product vendors***. LINQ provides a standardised [ READ MORE ]
OpenLink has recently posted an excellent white paper on using LinqToRdf with Virtuoso and the Virtuoso Sponger: Recently OpenLink has been investigating LinqToRdf, an exciting project from Andrew Matthews which aims to bring the Semantic Web to .NET. Because of their language bindings and heritage, existing RDF APIs such as Sesame, Jena and Redland predominantly favour [ READ MORE ]
I’m very pleased to announce the release of version 0.8 of LinqToRdf. This release is significant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because it provides a preview release of RdfMetal and secondly because it is the first release containing changes contributed by someone other than yours truly. The changes in this instance being provided by [ READ MORE ]
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