Section: Software

Corese

Participants : Olivier Corby [correspondant] , Fabien Gandon.

Corese(http://www.inria.fr/sophia/edelweiss/software/corese ) (COnceptual REsource Search Engine) is a Semantic Web Factory. It enables users to load and process RDFS schemas, RDF metadata and to query the base of annotations thus created, by using the SPARQL Query Language.

Corese implements RDF, RDFS and SPARQL 1.1 Query Language & Update. Furthermore, Corese query language integrates original features such as approximate search, SQL or XPath. Approximate search consists of searching the best approximate answers to a query according to the ontology types. Corese also integrates a SPARQL-based Rule Language for RDF.

Corese is a Semantic Web Factory that enables us to design and develop Semantic Web applications; it is available for download. In the past, Corese benefited from an INRIA software development support (ADT) with two software engineers. Corese is registered at the APP and in 2007 we decided to distribute it as open source software under license CeCILL-C.

Corese is used and has been used in more than 45 applications, 21 PhD Thesis and is used for education by 8 institutions. It is used as a Semantic Factory in such projects as Ontorule, Palette, SevenPro and SeaLife european projects, in e-WOK Hub, Neurolog, ISICIL and Kolflow ANR projects, BioMarker and KmP projects, Semantic Web Import Plugin for Gephi visualization and ECCO ontology editor. The work on Corese was published in [57] , [58] , [59] , [56] , [1] , [5] , [3] , [2] , [4] .

This year we released a major new version 3.0 based on the KGRAM SPARQL 1.1 interpreter. KGRAM (see 6.1.1 ) is a generic SPARQL interpreter that can query not only RDF but also labeled graphs.

Web page: http://www.inria.fr/sophia/edelweiss/software/corese