[Mulgara-dev] OWL API support for Mulgara

[Webster Mudge]

Hi all,

Any thoughts on implementing the OWL API interface [1] for Mulgara?
Is anyone already working on this, or is there no interest?

I ask since the upcoming Protege 4.x [2] is based solely on the OWL
API spec.  It would be a smart move if Mulgara could be an underlying
repository for this popular application -- more eyes looking at
Mulgara means more momentum and all the rest, right?

The thinking is that OWL API adherence will facilitate plugin and
repository development in the new Protege framework.  In addition,
implementing the OWLOntology interface [3] will allow developers of
other Mulgara-based applications easy access to Pellet, FaCT, and
other reasoners without resorting to the DIG interface.

Mulgara has more or less abandoned the Jena interface, and I do not
see a lot of traction out there for JRDF or SOFA.  Mulgara needs to
play well with others; is the OWL API one of the answers?

Thanks,
Webster

[1] http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/index.html
[2] http://www.co-ode.org/downloads/protege-x/
[3] Section 3.2 in
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS//Vol-258/paper19.pdf