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Going For The Top Of Semantic Web

By Jeff Feinman

March 15, 2007 — Semantic Web tool company TopQuadrant in late February released TopBraid Composer 2.0 with the ability to manage multiple inference engines, as it now has integration capabilities with open-source and company-made inference engines.

In addition, the offering lets users run Simple Protocol And RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries—using W3C-proposed standards for querying an RDF-based semantic data store—on top of a description logic reasoner. A description logic reasoner is designed for work with OWL (Web Ontology Languages) and Description Logics, key design components of Semantic Web ontologies.

“These inference engines allow you to take any arbitrary data structure and still make sense out of it,” said Holger Knublauch, vice president for product development at TopQuadrant. “You can really just download any model from the Semantic Web, and use the inference engines to insert and integrate these models with the models of your own applications. That’s something that I don’t think can be done with traditional software development approaches.”

TopBraid Composer 2.0 is compatible with Resource Description Framework (RDF), a syntax for expressing Web page data in XHTML, and Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages, both of which allow metadata to be embedded into existing HTML pages as mashups. Also, TopBraid Composer 2.0 has integration capabilities with XML and relational database management systems.

When asked what needs to take place for Semantic Web technology to continue growing, Dean Allemang, chief technology consultant for TopQuadrant, said, “We’ve moved from being an industry filled with components that just reached maturity to an industry where you have these matured components and an infrastructure that lets you put them together, without having to go down to the assembly level to stitch them together.”

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