[HN Gopher] Generating websites with SPARQL and Snowman, part 1
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       Generating websites with SPARQL and Snowman, part 1
        
       Author : davidrupp
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2022-05-22 16:03 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bobdc.com)
        
       | alexchamberlain wrote:
       | Nice to see some RDF projects evolving outside the Java (RDF4J)
       | ecosystem- RDF is vastly undervalued in industry IMHO.
        
         | melony wrote:
         | It is undervalued because it only offer value to third party
         | search engines and web scrapers. The site owner does not derive
         | any returns from implementing RDF which is often a non-trivial
         | amount of work. The biggest search engine on the planet has
         | enough scale that RDF offers it negligible value. Academia
         | won't be able to convince anybody soon until they can show
         | improvements in $.
        
           | p_l wrote:
           | BBC thought differently - they don't expose it externally,
           | but BBC website uses semantic Web technologies on the backend
           | to automatically link relevant information including making
           | it easier to author new content.
        
         | jansommer wrote:
         | Completely agree. I'm hoping to one day see Jena [0] compiled
         | to a native image [1]. Having a persistent triple store with
         | transactions, and an inference api in owl/rdfs/shacl with a
         | prolog-like "logic programming engine", running in-process like
         | SQLite, would be awesome.
         | 
         | [0] https://jena.apache.org/
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         | [1] https://www.graalvm.org/22.0/reference-manual/native-image/
        
       | kinghuang wrote:
       | What great timing! I was just thinking about wanting something to
       | generate a static website for graph data I've gathered in AWS
       | Neptune. I'm definitely going to play around with this when I
       | have some time.
        
       | abbe98 wrote:
       | Cool to see a project(Snowman[0]) I'm the creator of mentioned
       | here on HN.
       | 
       | I created Snowman to allow one to use RDF/SPARQL even in the
       | user-facing parts of ones stack(and to learn Go).
       | 
       | [0]: https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman/
        
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