Re: RE: Big data applications for general users based on RDF - where are they?

Hi Dominic,

Good question.

You may be interested in the unusual approach in:

*   www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1.pdf

   www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1Video.htm  (Flash video with
audio)

   www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/EnergyIndependence1.agent

   www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/RDFQueryLangComparison1.agent*

Apologies if you have seen this before, and thanks for comments.

                                                    -- Adrian

Internet Business Logic
Open Apps for Open Data
A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English Q/A Apps
over SQL and RDF
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com
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Adrian Walker
Reengineering



On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Dominic Oldman <doint@oldman.me.uk> wrote:

> So publishing linked data is easy but creating applications that make use
> of it is a completely different kettle of fish and very difficult,
> particularly in the way I described.
>
> My assumption is that the linked data community is keen to create these
> user applications and not consign linked data to isolated back end
> processing jobs and a tool for computer scientists. How do we as a
> community solve the semantic interoperability issue?
>
> Dominic
>
> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
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> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
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> * From: * Dominic Oldman <do_home@btopenworld.com>;
> * To: * jyoung@oclc.org <jyoung@oclc.org>;
> * Subject: * Re: RE: Big data applications for general users based on RDF
> - where are they?
> * Sent: * Sat, Jun 22, 2013 4:41:03 PM
>
>   So publishing linked data is easy but creating applications that make
> use of it is a completely different kettle of fish and very difficult,
> particularly in the way I described.
>
> My assumption is that the linked data community is keen to create these
> user applications and not consign linked data to isolated back end
> processing jobs and a tool for computer scientists. How do we as a
> community solve the semantic interoperability issue?
>
> Dominic
>
> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
>
>  ------------------------------
> * From: * Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org>;
> * To: * doint@oldman.me.uk <doint@oldman.me.uk>; public-lod@w3 org <
> public-lod@w3.org>;
> * Subject: * RE: Big data applications for general users based on RDF -
> where are they?
> * Sent: * Sat, Jun 22, 2013 4:27:31 PM
>
>    It’s pretty easy to write an XSL stylesheet to convert “records” into
> RDF/XML, and then write a little M/R job to run the XSL against a big bulk
> of records to boil it down.
>
>
>
> The intellectual challenge is the semantic mapping of idiomatic data into
> RDF vocabulary terms.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> *From:* Dominic Oldman [mailto:doint@oldman.me.uk]
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:16 PM
> *To:* public-lod@w3 org
> *Subject:* Big data applications for general users based on RDF - where
> are they?
>
>
>
>
> Why are there so few useful linked data applications for general non
> technical users that provide functions that people need to support and
> enhance their work and which operate over large amounts of data owned by
> different organisations with a high degree of semantic interoperability and
> robustness?
>
> Dominic
>
> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
>
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>