What is the IBM Semantic Layered Research Platform?
The IBM Semantic Layered Research Platform is the collective name for the family of software components produced by the IBM Advanced Technology group to support semantics throughout the application stack. We’ll be announcing the availability of these components to the open-source community over the next few months as we polish the initial versions of them and prepare the supporting materials for each. The project is licensed as open-source under the Eclipse Public License.
The genesis of the platform was in our work with CViT, an emerging community for cancer modelers with whom we are working closely to create an application to support wide area collaboration for biomedical research and a series of cancer model and experimental data repositories.
The following is a summary of the components that we’ll be making available, with a brief description of each. The list is arranged in a rough approximation of the order in which we think we’ll be able to release them, but the order is very much subject to change.
- Boca1. Boca is the foundation of many of our components. It is an enterprise-featured RDF store that provides support for multiple users, distributed clients, offline work, real-time notification, named-graph modularization, versioning, access controls, and transactions with preconditions. Matt’s written more about Boca here . Along with Boca are included two subsystems which may also be interesting on their own… [More]