- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:29:46 -0500
- To: Andreas Langegger <al@jku.at>
- CC: Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com>, Georgi Kobilarov <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org
On 2/9/09 9:42 AM, Andreas Langegger wrote: > d2r-server and Virtuoso RDF views (and others) is only the base > technology which "enables" people to expose RDF out of RDBMS. > However, to use them accordingly I'm afraid Juan and Hugh aren't so > wrong. You'll have to invest a lot of time to use the right > vocabularies (a) and right (external) URIs (b) to expose the right > things (c). You've described a UI problem i.e. something that sits above these tools. My gripe is that we are always throwing out the baby with the bathwater. We have an HTML based tool for "Data Source" ontology and instance data generation. We even have a rudimentary Ajax based visual mapper for complex mappings, but we can only do so many hard things that ultimately fall foul of cognitive dissonance i.e., it is always easy to say: don't understand that, its too hard; basically, the darn porn analogy: I'll know it when I see it etc.. > > Even internal linking is not trivial. Usually a DB schema is not that > what you want outside. So you have to invest some time for the mapping > task. And linking only internally doesn't contribute much, so > adding external links is a must and that's some effort. > As you can imagine, for someone to espouses dog-fooding at every turn (including within our company), we've gone through the process of very complex mappings of our entire IS infrastructure. I also know Orri has explained this repeatedly at every turn also re. mapping matters. Even more alarming to me is the strange ambivalence to UMBEL which is also about an understanding of these matters expressed via an ontology hub that delivers infrastructure for mapping tools. > I don't want to be that pessimistic, but if I've had THE idea to solve > this, I would share it.... We'll we not only shared our ideas, we've built and delivered solutions or attempted to kick-off collaboration to address these issues. My experience to date always comes back down to: cognitive dissonance. Too little listening, and too much talking which typically end up in my : preaching to choir or teaching parents how to make babies, mental buckets :-( -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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