Release Announcement

ONTOLOGY SOFTWARE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

The AI Perl Committee is pleased to announce the first public release of our Cowl API v1.0.0, codename "Plain Cheese" pizza!
https://metacpan.org/pod/RDF::Cowl

In addition, we have also released the Alien::Cowl helper library, which allows Perl to build and/or load Cowl's C code.
https://metacpan.org/pod/Alien::Cowl

Our basic website for Perl Cowl is now available:
https://perlcommunity.org/ai#cowl

Why Perl?

We choose Perl because it is the most mature, stable, and reliable of the dynamic programming languages. Also, Perl is experiencing a resurgence in the field of artificial intelligence, as seen by the AI Perl Committee's list of new projects:
https://perlcommunity.org/ai

Why Cowl?

We choose Cowl because it is written using pure C source code, and since Perl itself is likewise written in C, then we are therefore able to much more easily create a well-fitting API for Perl to interface with Cowl rather than some other OWL library written in a non-C language. Also, Cowl is a live project undergoing active development, and provides a fully-featured OWL solution, as seen by creator Ivano Bilenchi's documentation:
https://swot.sisinflab.poliba.it/cowl

We would like to express our praise for Ivano in all his hard work of creating Cowl, and we look forward to working with him to expand the new list of projects that support or utilize Cowl.
https://swot.sisinflab.poliba.it/cowl/about/#projects

What's next?

Perl Cowl v1.0.0 is now ready for deployment in both testing and production environments. The AI Perl Committee will continue to upgrade our Perl ontology toolchain with new and existing projects, including but not limited to:

• Alien::Robot, Perl helper library to load the Robot software used to convert between different ontology data formats
  http://robot.obolibrary.org
• iPerl Cowl notebook, gene ontology project using Cowl and eventually all Perl ontology toolchain components
  https://metacpan.org/dist/Devel-IPerl/view/bin/iperl
• Attean, Perl library for SPARQL with in-memory triple store
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Attean
• SQLite or equivalent triple-store software, Perl library for database with on-disk triple store
  https://github.com/INCATools/semantic-sql

Want more info?

For more information about the Perl Cowl API or any other Perl AI project, please contact:

Will Braswell
AI Perl Committee, 1st Vice Chairman
william DOT braswell AT autoparallel DOT com