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JAvascript Suite for Sparql Access
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Question: Can Jassa parse RDF/Turtle files? #13

Closed nicholsn closed 10 years ago

nicholsn commented 10 years ago

Not sure if this is in scope for the project, but does Jassa support accessing RDF/Turtle documents on the Web, or does it require a SPARQL endpoint?

Aside: are questions like these best asked here or is there a mailing list?

Aklakan commented 10 years ago

At present, this project is focused on providing tools and abstractions for dealing with SPARQL (SELECT) queries; such as composition, transformation and execution of queries, with the goal of providing out-of-the box (i.e. without preprocessing) faceted browsing over SPARQL endpoints.

The API design of Jassa follows that of Apache Jena very closely, and therefore also has an RDF API at the lowest level, which means it should be fairly simple integrating one of the existing RDF parsers into this project as well (most likely its just a matter of creating jassa.rdf.Triple objects from the data delivered by the parser); but right now this is not our priority.

We are also looking into how well the current (Jena-based) RDF API design can be aligned with the http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-interfaces/; maybe it would be possible to achieve interoperability on that level.

nicholsn commented 10 years ago

great, thanks for the background info. Jassa looks quite nice and it would be great to see support for querying rdf files as well as sparql endpoints.