Re: RDB2RDF Usecase

Hi Ahmed:
Just a paragraph or two will do.

Have a great holiday!  I look forward reconnecting in he New Year,

All the best, Ashok


Ezzat, Ahmed wrote:
> Hello Ashok,
>
> Sure.  Do you have a template for use case? and also how long, i.e., is it 1-2 pages or more?
>
> BTW. Wanted to wish you all happy holidays and best new year.
> I am disappearing starting this Monday to new years eve (out of town) going to East coast in undisclosed location and disconnected from the rest of the world.  I will work on the use case but will not be available online.
> Best Regards,
>
> Ahmed
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ashok malhotra [mailto:ashok.malhotra@oracle.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 14:38
> To: Ezzat, Ahmed
> Cc: public-xg-rdb2rdf@w3.org
> Subject: Re: RDB2RDF Usecase
>
> Hi Ahmed:
> I agree that data integration, what you call the silo pain, is a key
> usecase for RDB2RDF.
> If we could add a data integration usecase to the Recommendation, that
> would be great.
>
> Can you write up the usecase more formally? Perhaps something from your
> experience.
>
> All the best, Ashok
>
>
> Ezzat, Ahmed wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> One observation I have is we need to be clearer on Rdb2Rdf for solving
>> the silo pain. Rdb2Rdf is a must but not sufficient technology to
>> integrate silos. As you need ot reconcile the results from each data
>> source together before the data is useful enough to apply SPARQL as an
>> example; which is outside the Rdb2Rdf framework.
>> Regarding user scenario, I see a lot of value in the Enterprise
>> Information Management (EIM) area where you integrate data warehouse
>> with content in the enterprise (i.e., not using current technology of
>> NLP + converting to XML then shredding elements in the data warehouse
>> database columns) to be able to return more actionable information.
>> For example, a query to a datawarehouse today can be" "tell me all
>> companies that bought $1M equipments last month" ß easy one. Now with
>> integration of structured and unstructured data in the enterprise you
>> can ask " tell me all companies that bought $1M equipments and had
>> complaints?" The point here is customer complaints typically is in
>> email content and the list of companies who bough is in the data
>> warehouse. By being able to integrate the results of search and SQL at
>> high-level as RDF sub-graphs, etc, you can answer the 2^nd question
>> transparently w/o manual work.
>> In summary, I suggest to position Rdb2Rdf as a core technology that
>> would help in solving higher level problems like some of the examples
>> in this email thread.
>> Regards,
>> Ahmed
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