RIF and RDB2RDF

Dear all,

unfortunately due to technical problems, we couldn't discuss the 
RIF-RDB2RDF liaison in more detail today in the call.

So, let us take this on mail:

Please look throught the slides at
http://esw.w3.org/topic/Rdb2RdfXG?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=RIF4RDB2RDF.pdf

The general idea behind this presentation was to give you a glimpse over 
RIF's current presentation syntax and saome very simple example how an 
RDB2RDF mapping could be expressed using RIF rules.

That would make RIF an exchange format for such mappings.

RIF has the notion of "dialects", which is special RIF subsets which 
maybe propose special built-in functions and datatypes and may even 
define their own surface syntax.

The idea I have is:

We should put on the charter proposal for a WG that such a WG should 
define a RIF dialect for describing RDB2RDF mappings.
... possibly with an own/adapted presentation syntax, but also with a 
RIF compatible XML syntax.

Feedback/comments welcome!



best,
Axel

-- 
Dr. Axel Polleres
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, 
Galway
email: axel.polleres@deri.org  url: http://www.polleres.net/

Received on Friday, 7 November 2008 16:41:53 UTC