The last weeks have been rather busy, I've presented SemWIQ at ESWC and before ESWC I had spontanously decided to go to the Semantic Tech Conference in San José to see what's going on in the US.

Well, Jena-bundled Schemagen can be used to generate Java class representations for RDF ontologies (classes and properties will be represented by static constants). But this only helps at the schema level. When dealing with ontology instances in an RDF store one faces a similar problem than when working with relational databases: you would like to have a Java domain model representing your external data.

A nice Venn diagram can be found in Tim BL's spec of Notation3 at http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3 (Appendix).

Here is also a short overview:

The new home of SemWIQ - the Semantic Web Integrator and Query Engine developed at the Institute of Applied Knowledge Processing, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria has been launched at:http://semwiq.faw.uni-linz.ac.at It will host open source releases of the middleware, documentations and guides, a mailing-list as well as a central point of discussions in the following areas: