[Versa] Welcome to the Versa list

[Michael Olson]

On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:20 AM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> Versa scrapped its way into being a very usable RDF query language,
> picked up a good number of fans, and found a good amount of use in the
> field.  Unfortunately, it never went through the polish stage of a
> proper 1.0 release.
>

Then I think it is time.

>
> In the coming weeks, I'll be leading discussion that I hope will lead
> quickly to a draft of Versa 2.0 (even the version designation is open  
> to
> discussion).  I look forward to thoughts and comments from any
> interested party.
>

I vote for keeping it 1.0 and getting a good polished release out.   
Having been through the spec recently I think it is very close.   
Personally, I have some additional needs for it which we can hash out  
on the list.

What I plan on doing is, as issues and changes are resolved, building a  
set of conformance test cases, similar to those the W3c uses for RDF  
and OWL.  Then, once he have a home for versa making this all available  
separate from 4Suite.


Mike

> Meanwhile, if you need a refresher on Versa or would like to try to get
> anyone else on board, here are some resources:
>
> Versa home page (for now): http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/rdf/versa/
> Chime's article on Versa:  
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/07/20/versa.html
> Uche's article on Versa:
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think10/
>
> --  
> Uche Ogbuji                               Fourthought, Inc.
> http://uche.ogbuji.net                    http://fourthought.com
> http://copia.ogbuji.net                   http://4Suite.org
> Use CSS to display XML, part 2 -  
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html
> XML Output with 4Suite & Amara -  
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/20/py-xml.html
> Use XSLT to prepare XML for import into OpenOffice Calc -  
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oocalc/
> Schema standardization for top-down semantic transparency -  
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think31.html
>
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