Installing, creating and populating triple stores Part 1: Sesame

Sesame

Installing	is straight forward; copying two war files in a Java servlet container as described in the manual at http://www.openrdf.org/doc/sesame2/2.3.2/users/userguide.html#chapter-server-install brings you up and running in no time.
Creating a store	created the test triple store using the openrdf-workbench web app ('New repository' under 'Repositories'). BEWARE:With my testfile of 168 Mb using the 'In Memory Store' did lead to a Java Heap Space issue; did choose a 'Native Java Store' instead.
Populating the store	using the 'Add' directive under 'Modify' of the open-rdf workbench.
Overall	very easy to set up with a very good web management interface.

installing	the Sesame part is identical as above. for the BigOWLIM part; the BigOWLIM Quick Start Guide (PDF) has a very good step by step procedure. BEWARE: if you want additional functionality such as geo queries, you best copy all the jars from the bigowlim-3.4\ext folder to the openrdf-sesame\WEB-INF\lib folder instead of only the 4 jars mentioned in the guide.
creating a triple store	this cannot be done from the sesame openrdf-workbench. You need to use the Sesame console application, using the BigOWLIM repository template file 'bigowlim.ttl' to be copied in the templates directory of the OpenRDF Sesame console folder. On Windows 7 this is C:\Users\xxx\Appdata\Roaming\Aduna\OpenRDF Sesame console\templates. This is again well described in the same Quick Start Guide.
populating the triple store	once the repository is created one can populate it using the openrdf workbench (same as above).
overall	a little bit more tricky, but once the store is created, you have the same user-friendly environment as with plain Sesame.

BEWARE: do not forget to close your console instructions with a '.'.