[scala] Re: RDF in Scala?

[Tom Morris-5]

On 2004-08-24, rod@... <rod@...> wrote:

> As I said in my previous post, I'm considering using
> Scala in an RDF application.  I love its functional
> aspect, and its creators appear to be very interested
> in making XML manipulations easy.  I'm interested in
> building a simple domain-specific language on top of
> Scala that represents RDF triples in an easy to read,
> easy to use fashion, perhaps using syntax similar to
> the syntax used by Adenine, a DSL developed at MIT
> for the Haystack project
> http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/developers/adenine.html
>
> Has any work been done with RDF in Scala?
>

Not as far as I'm aware. A Scala front-end to Jena would be very
awesome.

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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>

[Eric Rochester]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Tom Morris <tom@...> wrote:

On 2004-08-24, rod@... <rod@...> wrote:
> As I said in my previous post, I'm considering using
> Scala in an RDF application.  I love its functional
> aspect, and its creators appear to be very interested
> in making XML manipulations easy.  I'm interested in
> building a simple domain-specific language on top of
> Scala that represents RDF triples in an easy to read,
> easy to use fashion, perhaps using syntax similar to
> the syntax used by Adenine, a DSL developed at MIT
> for the Haystack project
> http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/developers/adenine.html
>
> Has any work been done with RDF in Scala?
>

Not as far as I'm aware. A Scala front-end to Jena would be very
awesome.

I've been thinking about the same thing recently, and a few days ago, Google turned this up:

http://code.google.com/p/scardf/

Eric Rochester

[Randall Schulz]

On Friday October 9 2009, Tom Morris wrote:

> On 2004-08-24, rod@... <rod@...> wrote:
> > As I said in my previous post, I'm considering using
> > Scala in an RDF application.  I love its functional
> > aspect, and its creators appear to be very interested
> > in making XML manipulations easy.  I'm interested in
> > building a simple domain-specific language on top of
> > Scala that represents RDF triples in an easy to read,
> > easy to use fashion, perhaps using syntax similar to
> > the syntax used by Adenine, a DSL developed at MIT
> > for the Haystack project
> > http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/developers/adenine.html
> >
> > Has any work been done with RDF in Scala?
>
> Not as far as I'm aware. A Scala front-end to Jena would be very
> awesome.

Two questions:

1) Are you really responding to a message from almost 5 years ago?
2) Are you related to Tony?


Randall Schulz