- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:03:03 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- CC: "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <5432D957.3020300@openlinksw.com>
On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > It's not hard to query PDFs with SPARQL. All you have to do is > extract the metadata from the document and turn it into RDF, if > needed. Lots of programs extract and display this metadata already. Peter, Having had 200+ (some-non-rdf-doc} to RDF document transformers built under my direct guidance, there are issues with your claim above: 1. The extractors are platform specific -- AWWW is about platform agnosticism (I don't want to mandate an OS for experiencing the power of Linked Open Data transformers / rdfizers) 2. It isn't solely about metadata -- we also have raw data inside these documents confined to Tables, paragraphs of sentences 3. If querying a PDF was marginally simple, I would be demonstrating that using a SPARQL results URL in response to this post :-) Possible != Simple and Productive. We want to leverage the productivity and simplicity that AWWW brings to data representation, access, interaction, and integration. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog 1: http://kidehen.blogspot.com Personal Weblog 2: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen Personal WebID: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this
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