- From: Benjamin Degenhart <benjamin.degenhart@foerderfunke.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:02:17 +0100
- To: public-facade-x@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CANMpeZ_5-eZGTEWLzvc6HrOi4CE1vsg6_4nYWZbHPOh786mJxg@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Data Façades Community Group, I am following your work with curiosity and wanted to reach out regarding an upcoming project. As a freelance software developer I will be working with the Civic Data Lab, a Ministry-funded NGO in Germany. The goal is to create a federated directory of social counseling services in Germany. We will fetch data from the databases of various organisations that already maintain parts of this directory. The plan is to convert the heterogeneous sources (we expect a mix of APIs with JSON output, HTML scraping, CSV files, etc.) into one RDF schema. This schema will build on existing vocabulary (e.g. the Core Public Organisation Vocabulary from SEMIC) and gradually mature as we solve the challenges of integrating all these sources while simultaneously working on the usage scenarios of this new federated directory. So our challenge will be exactly as you put it: a "homogeneous view over heterogeneous data sources." Is the Façade-X method something I could use here? What approaches would you recommend? Which libraries are already usable? I'd really appreciate your thoughts and advice on this. Best regards Benjamin Degenhart www.linkedin.com/in/bdegenhart
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