Today is the second day of the Triple-I Conference in Graz / Austria. Thomas presented the SWORE Ontology for Requirements Engineering which is part of our Softwiki project and I will present the LDAP 2 SPARQL project tomorrow.

Graz is really a nice city with many cultural places of interest and a great old city center with small alley and this castle hill.

In order to exploit the client support of LDAP directories with the semantic expressivity of RDF knowledge bases, we aim at integrating RDF knowledge bases into LDAP directory services.

LDAP 2 SPARQL is a Backend to the widely used OpenLDAP server. It translates LDAP queries into SPARQL queries, asks a SPARQL endpoint and translates the result back to LDIF.

We’ve just released LDAP 2 SPARQL 0.2, the first official version the backend. It was presented as a Demo at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference this week …