Re: [ANN] SIMILE Welkin 1.1 Released

From: Paolo Ciccarese <paolo_at_aim.unipv.it>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:09:37 +0200

Oh, damn, Jeen, I'm so sorry for having mispelled your name.

Thank you again for your support
Paolo

Paolo Ciccarese wrote:

> Alan McMorran wrote:
>
>>> This release brings several new features and a rewritten internal RDF
>>> architecture, which lead us to a drastic reduction in code size, memory
>>> consuption, startup time and RDF load time.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Just out of interest, why did you move from the Jena parser to the
>> OpenRDF
>> one? The Open RDF parser doesn't seem to like my data and throws parse
>> exceptions like:
>>
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: '#_7'
>
> Hi Alan,
> I saw that with Jean help (thank you Jean!) you already solved the
> problem related to the above exception.
>
> The idea behind Rio was to move to a light rdf parser as Jena was
> havyly underused (Rio is about 150K against about 3Mb of Jena, this
> sounds good with web start). In fact, RDQL and other features are not
> used in welkin at all. That because welkin is going probably to be a
> visualization tool only, while facetting will be performed by other
> applications like Longwell.
>
>> Great wee tool though, everyone I've showed it to here has been highly
>> impressed.
>>
>>
>>
> Thank you for you interest in Welkin.
>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
> Paolo
>


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