The Google Summer of Code cycle is about to begin again:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
March 10 - student application period starts
March 21 - student application period ends
April 21 - acceptances
If there are any ideas, then we should get them into JITA with tag GSoC.
Also I wondered about things that would as part fo the project need
investigation, needing a significant proportion of the time on deciding
what to do as well as some amount of doing.
A few ideas that occurred to me, in no particular order, which I'll
think about more to make sure that they are realistic in the time available:
+ Prototype an in-memory parallel dataset implementation.
+ New API(s) -- given Java8, what would a new RDF API look like?
+ Enhance graph capabilities (e.g. shortest path and other graph
algorithms).
+ Binary protocol for SPARQL.
+ Temporary tables in SPARQL - both in one query and also for combining
query and update in one request.
+ Query planning where there are property functions like text:query
involved (see recent users@)
+ A data validation, transformation (and correction!) pipeline.
Andy
