Ascension Semantica: spin

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My first SPIN cycle was about 10 months ago in the first part of December. It was short lived as I had to dive deep into other things quickly and the new concepts that I was struggling with then didn't get the chance to sink in before their memory would begin to fade.

At that time I was struck by SPIN's potential and the promise of having a semantic rule language that applied a language that I already knew and evoked daily -SPARQL. Working previously with SWRL had left a bad taste in my mouth for rule languages. Nothing against SWRL itself, it was the engines that processed it that seemed to be the problem. They were disappointingly slow to say the least. Just to detect simple "uncle" relationships in a small family tree the engines would take tens of minutes if they didn't crash altogether. The logician in me was drawn toward rule based specifications, but the pragmatist in me was left wondering why use rules when you could get the same information a thousand times faster with a SPARQL query?

It didn't occur to me to put the two together (not that I ...

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