Sunday, June 22, 2008

INQLE version 0.1 is born!

My open source project INQLE (Intelligent Network of Querying and Learning Engines) has reached the ripe old age of 0.1! I had intended this version to be very bare bones, such that it would barely work. But I found that a few features were needed to make the bloody thing usable. Most notably I added 3 big features:
  • a wizard for loading spreadsheet data as RDF. This is a pretty powerful feature.
  • a setup wizard which runs upon starting INQLE for the first time
  • an embedded database. This dramatically simplifies the process of installing INQLE. To my delight, I discovered that Jena has recently begin supporting the fantastic H2 database, which performs very well as an embedded database (in fact it outperforms non-embedded databases significantly). I find INQLE runs much faster using an embedded H2 database than an external PostgreSQL database.
Next up: probably will add security, probably using OpenID and Google accounts.

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