Swish: Semantic Web Inference Scripting in Haskell

The Swish system is a platform for experimenting with inference using Semantic Web data. It serves as both a library of functions, and also incorporates a stand-alone command line program that can be used to perform simple operations on Semantic Web data, including comparing and finding differences between RDF graphs.

Swish is implemented in the higher-order lazy functional language Haskell.

Also see the Swish home page.

Developer: Graham Klyne
Contact:
- Graham Klyne
  Nine by Nine
  UK
  Email: gk-swish@ninebynine.org
Number of sites: unknown (very few)
Number of users: unknown (very few)
In use: Swish 0.2 released December 2003
Language: Haskell
Compilers: Glasgow Haskell, Hugs.
Line count: about 20K.
Availability: Freely distributed for Unix and Windows at http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/Intro.html#Swish.
Related publications:
- Swish software description. G. Klyne, personal publication, February 2004:
  http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/swish-0.2.1.html.
- Using datatype-aware inferences with RDF. G. Klyne, personal publication, November 2003:
  http://www.ninebynine.org/RDFNotes/RDF-Datatype-inference.html.