Re: CSV to RDF

Would you consider

"Juan has an existing semantic web application using RDF/OWL and wants to
integrate CSV data with his existing RDF data, so he needs to convert CSV
to RDF"

as a use case?

Juan Sequeda
+1-575-SEQ-UEDA
www.juansequeda.com


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> On 5 March 2014 06:24, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was asked during the call today about having some discussion on
> converting CSV to RDF on a call soon.
> >
> > Dan and I have discussed this, and we want to focus on getting FPWDs
> (First Public Working Drafts) of our use cases and syntax documents out the
> door before we move on to specific discussion about converting tabular data
> into RDF, JSON, XML or other kinds of formats.
> >
> > We will not be scheduling telcon time for CSV-to-RDF conversations until
> those documents reach FPWD. More attention on and help with those documents
> will help progress that sooner. But we will get to it, we promise.
> (Remember we're only 6 weeks in to the Working Group!)
>
> Yes - what Jeni said.
>
> Even those of us who generally take it as self-evident that RDF is a
> good thing, owe it to ourselves to document in a bit more detail _why_
> we're so keen on mapping into triples. (In other words I don't
> consider "Dan wants his CSV converted to RDF" as a use case :)
>
> Dan
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeni
> > --
> > Jeni Tennison
> > http://www.jenitennison.com/
> >
>
>