Re: Microsoft OLE

Most Windows programmers would instantiate OLE objects in the applications
and query them to get results;  commonly people write XML or JSON APIs,
 but writing RDF wouldn't be too different.

The next step up is to have a theory that converts OLE data structures to
and from RDF either in general or in a specific case with help from a
schema.  Microsoft invested a lot in making SOAP work well with OLE,  so
you might do best with a SOAP to RDF mapping.

This caught my eye though,  because I've been looking at the relationships
between RDF and OMG,  a distant outpost of standardization.  You can find
competitive products on the market,  one based on UML and another based on
RDF, OWL, SKOS and so forth.  The products do more or less the same thing,
 but described in such different language and vocabulary that it's hard to
believe that they compete for any sales.

There is lots of interesting stuff there,  but the big theme is ISO Common
logic,  which adds higher-arity predicates and a foundation for inference
that people will actually want to use.  It's not hard to convince the
"enterprise" that first-order-logic is ready for the big time because banks
and larger corporations all use FOL-based systems on production rules to
automate decisions.



On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org> wrote:
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> Anyone know of any work around exposing OLE linked objects as RDF?
> I could envisage a proxy that gave me URIs and metadata for embedded
> objects.
>
> Is that even a sensible question? :-)
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