RDFIO 0.4.0 released - GSoC Finished!
With the release of RDFIO 0.4.0, my GSoC 2010 project is now over!
I want to thank especially my mentor Denny Vrandečić, and also the SMW community at large for a great time! I also want to sincerely thank my masters project mentor Egon Willighagen who mentioned about, and encouraged me to apply to the program. Without this encouragement, I'd never taken the step. It has been a good time and rewarding, and I've much enjoyed to have time to get a bit into MediaWiki/SMW extensions development, as well as to provide some new functionality to these great bits of software.
The main GSoC coding is now over, and I will need to take a little break for an exam this friday, but surely I'll continue to refine the RDFIO extension later, especially as Egon and me are looking into using it to integrate Bioclipse with SMW in order to make RDF data in Bioclipse "Community editable" (could turn out to be some real useful stuff!).
The 0.4.0 release
This new release brings a lot of refactoring and reworkings under the hood, as well as quite a few minor bugfixes and improvements here and there, so upgrading is recommended. We also got the issues in SMWWriter fixed now, so patching it is no longer needed, which hopefully will make installing easier!
- Se the extension page for more info about download and install
Of the more notable changes are the improved selection of wiki titles on import, as described in this blog post. Another important fix is that the default output format (if not specifying any) is now "SPARQL Resultset XML" which now makes the SPARQL endpoint fully "SPARQL compliant" and queryable from typical SPARQL tools like Jena. It is a remaining topic though how to allow update operations without leaving the endpoint wide open ... i.e. how to implement some form of user rights checking, when used as a webservice.
A little technical note also is that RDFIO now takes the $wgDBprefix parameter into account, so if you are using RDFIO with table prefixes in the database, you will need to regenerate the tables and the triples in the store (can be done at the Special:ARC2Admin and Special:SMWAdmin pages respectively).
I should not end without a note about some great bits of existing code that I've had the pleasure to make use of:
- ARC, the PHP RDF library I've been using, and on which RDFIO is very heavily dependent
I found it very powerful and super conveniant to work with! - I enjoyed making use of the SMWWriter and PageObjectModel extensions, which also definitely made life easier for me and saved me tons of work.
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Comments
Well done!
Well done!
Congratz!
It was a pleasure to work with you, and I am happy to see you want to work further on the integration with Bioclipse. And I am playing around with your extension right now :)
>It was a pleasure to work
>It was a pleasure to work with you
Thank you! And, I can just say "the same"! :) I think it has all worked really well.
I also have come to realize that the concrete working plan you set up was really very much just right ... both in terms of content, amount of work and pointers about how to get going practically ... which turned this into an enjoyable and rewarding little project!