Re: data integration - how to make a portal

Danny Ayers wrote:
> Hi Kingsley, 
>
>   
>> We already have RDF that is SPARQL accessible. The SPARQL 
>> Protocol allows us to do whatever with the results (including 
>> XSLT post-processing). The port remains a post processing of 
>> SPARQL results task. It isn't more than that.
>>     
>
> Ok, sure. But that task still needs doing. Ok, it would mean some
> redundancy, but would there actually be any harm in mirroring the store
> contents into Longwell which already has the facetted front end? The
> only SPARQL needed would be:
> CONSTRUCT ?s ?p ?o WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } :-)
>   
> In other words it would mean having one subsystem for information
> gathering, another for presentation. It wouldn't by any means rule out
> alternate presentation layers in future, but just seems to me like a
> low-effort way of getting something reasonably attractive running live
> at low effort, very quickly.
>
>   
I am not convinced that Longwell will deliver the ease of production you 
espouse re. this portal effort. That said, I am extremely willing to be 
convinced otherwise, by seeing it accelerate the portal effort :-)

Kingsley
> Cheers,
> Danny.
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Received on Sunday, 22 July 2007 01:16:46 UTC