Re: RDB2RDF Usecase

Hi Ashok, all,

Here my use case description from the Triplify perspective:

In order to make the Semantic Web useful to ordinary Web users RDF and 
OWL have to be deployed on the Web in a much larger scale. Web 
applications such as Content Management Systems, online shops or 
community applications (e.g. Wikis, Blogs, Fora) already back most of 
the existing Web sites and store their data in relational databases (cf. 
[1]). Providing a standardized way to map the relational data structures 
behind these Web applications into RDF, RDF-Schema and OWL will 
facilitate a broad penetration and enrichment of the existing Web with 
RDF data and ontologies and thus be crucial for novel semantic browsing 
and search applications.
(By supporting the long tail of Web applications and thus counteracting 
the centralization of the Web 2.0 applications the planned RDB2RDF 
standardization will help to give the control over data back to 
end-users and thus promote a democratization of the Web.)
For this use case scenario, the developed mapping technique should be 
easily implementable for light-weight Web applications and have a 
shallow learning curve in order to be adopted by Web developers.

[1] Auer, Dietzold, Lehmann, Hellmann, Aumueller: Triplify - Lightweight 
Linked Data Publication from Relational Databases, submitted to WWW 
2009, online at 
http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer/publication/triplify.pdf.


Feel free to change the text as you please or request modifications. The 
sentence in brackets could be perceived a little 
politically/ideologically - so feel free to soften or omit.

Best,

Sören

Received on Tuesday, 16 December 2008 13:47:09 UTC