Re: Semantic Web pneumonia and the Linked Data flu

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

>  On 2/9/09 10:12 AM, Juan Sequeda wrote:
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>> Do you know any solutions that produce RDF Linked Data from RDBMS sources?
>> Any that exist right now and can deliver such capability across any ODBC or
>> JDBC accessible DBMS? What about such a thing even going as far as providing
>> working examples for every major DBMS engine?
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> Not yet... unfortunately. There are still open research problems: ontology
> matching, linking algorithms. All of this is needed to have such a system.
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>> At what time in the future do you expect such a product to emerge?
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> When such a system exist, is when we can say that everybody is on the
> semantic web. Time... how about by the time I finish my PhD. :P
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>>   Well you've just made my point re. Cognitive Dissonance :-(
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I don't agree. I am clearly stating a problem, and the paths needed for it
to be solved. How am I contradicting myself?

Ok.. I believe I see where the confusion is. Of course virtuoso and d2r
server publish RDF linked data, etc. What I mean is that it does not happen
in an automatic fashion. That is needed! At least for all my web developer
colleagues who will never invest time in learning about virtuoso and d2r
server.

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