Vazaar Project Blog

Finally, I got the way to implement distutils into Vazaar. It lacks support for i18n/gettext but it is in the way. I’ve released a new tarball. You can launch it as developer inside your home with the command ./launch
But if you prefer a wide-system install, you must use the following command:
sudo python2.5 setup.py install
You can [...]

After some headaches I’ve found how to write dynamic SPARQL queries by passing parameters. For example, to query graph about resources collected last hour this code could be a first approach:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Dynamic query (example code)

from datetime import datetime
import rdflib
from namespaces import XSD

def last_day():
“”" get date “”"
now [...]

Checking others parts of the Vazaar GUI, I’ve realized that I can query remote ontologies and vocabularies with a simple SPARQL sentence. In the screenshot you can see how I query for the comments of all NAO entities.
Just for the record, it would be nice to save user queries and integrate them within Vazaar. [...]

After a long weekend coding and trying new design ideas finally I think I got a nice GUI. At least for the StartHere module:

There are still too much glitches in the GUI but I’m trying to fix them as I go. But for now, I feel satisfied. Queries against the model are working as expected.
After [...]

After months of improving my skills with Python and PyGTK and reading documents about semantic web and its integration with Desktops Interfaces (like GNOME or KDE) a lot of improvements have been made in Vazaar. This is an overview of the current state of development.
The presentation layer, the GUI, is more difficult to develop than [...]