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Laravel as a API-Rest Ontology server

Hello Folks,

I need to know if someone exprienced using Laravel in ontologic projects.

For those who don't know well what is ontology, it's instead using relational databases, we usually got only three tables : Concepts / Links / References where everything is a concept. We could have for example have concepts named :

  • id1 : Person
  • id2 : Email
  • id3 : Telephone
  • id4 : PlayerData
  • id5 : is-a
  • id6 : 3KyNoX (me)
  • id7 : inGameCurrency
  • id8 : inGameAmount
  • id9 : Contains

... where we could say :

  1. Thierry -> is-a -> Person which compose triplet 6 - 5 - 1 stored in Links table --- We can attach Email / Telephone References (which is concepts too) to this triplet.

  2. Thierry -> contains -> PlayerData ... 6 - 9 - 4 --- with References inGameCurrency and inGameCurrencyAmount

It adds more semantics and ontologic databases is widely used in scientist or IA projects.

We have a home ontologic framework that follow already the above schema that needs to be rewrited from scratch and we will sure be happy if we can do this with Laravel and using Eloquent ORM (updated for ontologic systems use).

So did someone got something to share about this subject, tutorials / code / packages, etc... ?

Thanks anyway, opened discussion.

3KyNoX

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3KyNoX's avatar

No one wish experienced ontology with Laravel ?

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bertholf's avatar

I am working on something similar, would be eager to collaborate.

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