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

Hi Jeff,
I assume you aren't suggesting that such tools are suitable for "non-technical users", as Dominic asked.
So you must be saying something else?
That it is pretty easy, but people don't do it?
Hugh

On 22 Jun 2013, at 17:27, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>
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> 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.
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> The intellectual challenge is the semantic mapping of idiomatic data into RDF vocabulary terms.
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> Jeff
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> Dominic
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