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

Hi Melvin,
I wouldn't really say that Tabulator was suitable for "general non technical users".
I just clicked on the link, and apart from getting endless windows with
"Couldn't set callback for redirects: TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'xhr.channel')"
it is pretty opaque as to what to do next.
Even trying to read the help.
That's not to say it isn't useful - it I just wouldn't even expect my technical non-SemWeb colleagues to feel the SemWeb was for them by being told that was an application for non-technical people.
Best
Hugh

On 22 Jun 2013, at 18:08, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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> On 22 June 2013 18:56, 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.
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> 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?
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> People have different focuses.  I would guess that most are interested in back ends and creating (mainly read only) data sets.
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> However there are a few people working on applications, to my knowledge.  If you look at Tim's linked data note, he references the tabulator project:
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> http://tabulator.org/
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> Which is an open source project he and his team at MIT have been developing over the last 10 years or so.  There's about 20 or so linked data applications from calendars to miroblogs.  The source can be found at:
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> https://github.com/linkeddata
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> This is my favourite project to hack on in my spare time.  If there's anybody out there interested in helping to create useful linked data apps, would love to hear from you! :)
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> Dominic
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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? 
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Dominic
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> 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? 
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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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