Parliament

Name of the tool:	Parliament
Home page:	http://http://parliament.semwebcentral.org/
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Programming language(s) that can be used with the tool:	Java, C
Relevant semantic web technologies:	RDF, SPARQL, OWL, RDFS
Categories:	Triple Store, Reasoner, OWL Reasoner, RDFS Reasoner, Rule Reasoner
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Company or institution:	Raytheon BBN Technologies

(Tool description last modified on 2011-01-9.)

Description

Parliament is a high-performance triple store designed for the Semantic Web. Parliament was originally developed under the name DAML DB and was extended by BBN Technologies for internal use in its R&D programs. Parliament was released as an open source project under the BSD license in June, 2009. Parliament's rule engine currently implements most of RDFS inference plus selected elements of OWL-Lite. Parliament is a triple store and a rule engine, but it does not include a query processor. Therefore, it is typically paired with a third-party query processor, such as Jena or Sesame. "