ODS gives you a full range of common web applications that you can host yourself. It frees you from dependence on a myriad of separate and non-integrated hosted applications and gives you control on how you appear to the web and semantic web. ODS can be used for setting up hosted services, for corporate intra and extranets or run on your PC as a privately hosted point of presence.
ODS is more than an integrated suite of common web applications. It is the basis for a web presence that covers conventional content for human consumption such as blogs as well as exposes the same content for the semantic web. ODS offers all standard feed formats, RSS, ATOM, FOAF and more where meaningful, all ODS data support tagging and are searchable via a common interface, supporting text as well as tags.
The next release of ODS will feature SPARQL? and URIQA access to all data that users choose to make publicly available.
Data Spaces are a new database management technology frontier that deals with the virtualization of heterogeneous data and data sources via a plethora of data access protocols.
As Unified Data Stores, Data Spaces also provide solid foundation for knowledge creation, processing, and dissemination; a making them a natural foundation platform for the emerging Data-Web (Semantic Web - Layer 1).
ODS is a platform for cost-effective generation of points of Semantic Web Presence from Web 2.0 applications.
ODS supports a number of Query Services:
ODS supports the following publishing protocols:
ODS comes with the Virtuoso Open Source 4.5.3 edition. If you are running the server with the demo database, just point the browser to http://localhost:8890/ods . See Setting up ODS for the needed configuration steps for getting full functionality.
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