Look into Raphael

[bartkl]

Paula has made a native Clojure Turtle parser. It is really promising:

https://github.com/quoll/raphael/

I tried it out, and it seems to work really well. It is a bit stricter in its adherence to the grammar spec: it does not allow trailing ; in the last verb-object mention in a blank node. I looked it up and she's correct :).

Anyways, I should think about if this is worthwhile.

[bartkl]

Raphael is cool, but I don't think it's worth it for us:

• RDF4j currently solves our reading issue perfectly fine
• RDF4j also supports other serializations than Turtle
• RDF4j has integrated support for SPARQL queries, giving us more options to work with
• RDF4j has stood the test of time and has more dedicated development time put into it. Raphael is more of a hobby project, and Paula has lots of other projects to work on.
• Raphael is more strict, which in practice can lead to issues reading Turtle files put out by for instance TopBraid Composer

It's nice to monitor the project, but it's not worth it for us right now.