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

Ah, now yer rocking!
But you didn't mention sed (and vi) :-)

On 22 Jun 2013, at 18:57, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>
 wrote:

> 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
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
>

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