OntoWiki 0.7 is now available for download. Changes in this release include

• Access Control at Model and Action level
• Enhancements in System Ontology http://ns.ontowiki.net/SysOnt/
• User Data is now FOAF compatible and managed as RDF Knowledge Base
• New SPARQL Query Shell together with a brand new SPARQL Engine
• New URI Routing (list, (class) view)
• GUI enhancements
• Several bug fixes
• Environment Changes include: New Zend 1.0.0, New RAP 0.9.5, Separation from Powl

We’ve decided to produce a anniversary release for our 10th birthday this year. Last weekend we recorded the drums and today the second guitar follows.

Christian Weiske, one of our diploma students, has ran some benchmarks to compare his new PHP SparqlEngineDb to some other implementations (Jena, ARC, Redland). The results are surprising - in most cases, his new SPARQL Engine is faster then all competitors.

OntoWiki 0.7, which will be released in the next two weeks, will be shipped with this new engine and a nice SPARQL shell.

Detailed benchmark results are available at cweiske.de.