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

Hugh,

Sorry, you're right. I overlooked the "non-technical uses" phrase in Dominic's message.

Let me spin it a little differently, then. If you're a techie, you can use these tools to create N-Triple data-dumps that non-techies can download and use with Unix-style commands like grep and sort and wc.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Glaser [mailto:hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:53 PM
> To: Young,Jeff (OR)
> Cc: doint@oldman.me.uk; public-lod@w3 org
> Subject: 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>
>  wrote:
> 
> > 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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