Re: [ANN] D2RQ v0.8 released

Thanks Richard, this may save me a lot of conversion work.  Government Repository supplied social data suffers from a statistical problem.  As I put it: sales are high, society is wide.  Government data sets must be purged of the subtle clues provided by the sub-jurisdiction[1] and bibliographic language[2] of the respondents before they are released.  The Private Sector salesmen do not have this problem because the Private Sector engineers provide  display language[3] support adequate for the markets they serve.  This ignores a basic Policy fact:  no matter how many gadgets you buy, XYZ Corp. is never going to build your community a sewer system.  On the other hand, if you are not careful, RDF is happy to tell you "The temperature in London, Moscow or Paris is 20 with a chance of snow flurries.  Be sure to wear sun block!".  This, more often than not, is a code mistranslation ... so replace the codes with mouse clicks.


The best way to publish the three tables, I think, is to use a single maintainable source table, puff them up to full size (there is no way without an outer join), and publish a "current view", perhaps in the cloud.  Informative links (about jurisdiction and language) point to the ID servers at the US LOC, but any reputable concept source will do.

Suggestions ?

--Gannon
[1] e.g. http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/urn/egov/
[2] http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/urn/lang/person/
[3] http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/urn/lang/display/



________________________________
 From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
To: public-lod@w3.org 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:47 PM
Subject: [ANN] D2RQ v0.8 released
 
We're proud to announce the release of D2RQ v0.8.

D2RQ is an open-source system for database-to-RDF mapping. It makes the contents of relational databases accessible as SPARQL endpoints, as Linked Data, and as RDF dumps.

   http://d2rq.org/

New features in this version include preliminary SPARQL 1.1 support, Firebird support, generation of RDFS/OWL schemas for databases, and download maps for making the content of CLOB/BLOB columns accessible via HTTP. Datatype compatibility with Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and HSQLDB has been greatly improved, and many bugs have been fixed. See [2] for the full list of changes.

You can download the latest release from GitHub [3].

The release incorporates patches submitted by several contributors:

- Jacobus Geluk
- Giovanni Mels
- Olaf Hartig
- Hannes Mühleisen
- David Venable
- Kurt Jacobson
- Bob Ferris
- Jan-Gregor Fischer

Work on this release has been possible thanks to the support of UCB. It's part of an ongoing collaboration between DERI and UCB - see [4] for more information.

All the best,
Richard and Aftab


[1] https://github.com/d2rq/d2rq/blob/d871bbdde4e0a7ebd96ca66adc76d918cb7548f3/RELEASE_NOTES.md
[2] https://github.com/d2rq/d2rq/downloads
[3] http://www.ucbpharma.co.uk/_up/ucbpharma_co_uk/documents/UCB_DERI.pdf