Re: SemWeb LAMP stack [was Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal]

Chris,

you are in luck because such a platform already exists :)  We call it
LinkedDataHub.
High-level overview of the cloud version: https://linkeddatahub.com/docs/about
Docker version is also available.

More implementation details: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BkgOUEAak7

It is powered by the LDT specification:
https://atomgraph.github.io/Linked-Data-Templates/

We're currently in a beta-testing phase. Bring on the use cases ;)

Martynas
atomgraph.com
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 3:32 AM Chris Mungall <cjmungall@lbl.gov> wrote:
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> On 21 Nov 2018, at 14:40, David Booth wrote:
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> 1. Tools are scattered. How to find them? Which to use?
> Every team wastes time going through a similar research and
> selection process.
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> One idea: create a bundled release of RDF tools, analogous
> to a standard LAMP stack, or Red Hat or Ubuntu; so that if
> someone wants to use RDF all they have to do is install that
> bundle and they're ready to go.
>
> I very much like this idea. I would particularly like to see a standard web stack that could be used with a triplestore of choice. Many developers love Neo4J becomes it's bundled with nice visual exploration mechanisms.
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> In contrast, with a typical SPARQL endpoint, you get something much more bare bones and it varies depending on which triplestore you use. It’s not super-enticing to non-geeks, and even for us SPARQL geeks, it’s not always clear how to get started.
>
> Of course, there is a lot of great code out there that can be used to build a generic front end, but it’s all very disjointed, and many of us end up rolling our own code, e.g. for providing users with templated queries, or deriving a simple schema that can be used for exploration.
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> A killer app would be a ‘semantic web generic client in a box’. Simply start a server pointing at a SPARQL endpoint(s). Optionally configure it with some example queries, metadata about what property to derive labels (or introspect this from the endpoint itself), and get:
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> A form interface for SPARQL queries with a menu of example queries that give you an idea of how to get started, plus some useful standard prefixes
> Simple linked data browsing (using conneg for html vs turtle)
> Dumb generic graphical browsing, a la neo4j
> Basic schema derivation; or just stats on most used classes and properties
> A generic semantic hypermedia API
> An autogenerated domain-specific swagger API (e.g. using garlik)
>
> I believe a lot of these pieces exist already, it's just that we as a community need to do a better job of putting these things together in an easy to use package. This shouldn't be so hard now it's easy to containerize things and orchestrate them.

Received on Thursday, 22 November 2018 10:07:05 UTC