Requirements for a Semantic Web Framework
(by Frank)
Interesting list of requirements for a Semantic Web Framework, spotted at http://blog.3kbo.com/2008/10/10/requirements-of-a-semantic-web-framework/
None of these are too surprising, and LarKC should easily live up to these requirements (exclusing perhaps the “role-based security”).
October 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Hi,
have to say this might be a nice feature-set basically describes “semantic-toolbox”, but it does not describe a framework.
Framework means tightly knit solution that brings standard coding patterns in sync with a specific new features.
To get a good feature set, take what’s written in the article and add important features of modern web frameworks such as Django or Rails. Where’s semantic equivalent to ORM? Where’s semantic-based solution for MVC? Where are good documentation about semantic DRY? Where’s semantic scaffolding?
Actually this seems like a really good project that will get a lot of spotlight if someone does it right.
bye
andraz
October 21st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Andraz, you’re right: SW apps share lots of functionality with ordinary Web apps, and should reuse Web frameworks as far as possible. I’ve been trying to leverage Rails for SW apps in ActiveRDF (http://activerdf.org), which you could call an ORM for RDF(S) data; see also this IEEE publication at http://eyaloren.org/pubs/ieeesw2007.pdf
October 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Eyal:
hi, thank you for your info. This really is pretty interesting piece of software, you know about anything similar for Python?
O/R stuff is getting done, now let’s get to MVC ?
Oh, and this is not important only for web. Actually many people are doing non-web things with those ’standard’ frameworks, including me/us at Zemanta.
bye
andraz
November 10th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Andraz: I don’t know anything comparable on Python, unfortunately.