Re: "Microsoft Access" for RDF?

Hi Stian,

Thanks for the mention :)

> Graham Klyne's Annalist is perhaps not quite what you are thinking of
> (I don't think it can connect to an arbitrary SPARQL endpoint), but I
> would consider it as falling under a similar category, as you have a
> user interface to define record types and forms, browse and edit
> records, with views defined for different record types. Under the
> surface it is however all RDF and REST - so you are making a schema by
> stealth.
>
> http://annalist.net/
> http://demo.annalist.net/

Annalist is still in its prototype phase, but it's available to play with if 
anyone wants to try stuff.  See also https://github.com/gklyne/annalist for 
source.  There's also a Dockerized version.

It's true that Annalist does not currently connect to a SPARQL endpoint, but 
have recently been doing some RDF data wrangling and starting to think about how 
to connect to public RDF (e.g. http://demo.annalist.net/annalist/c/CALMA_data/d/ 
is a first attempt at creating an editable version of some music data from your 
colleague Sean).  In this case, the record types and views have been created 
automatically from the raw data, and are pretty basic - but that automatic 
extraction can serve as a starting point for subsequent editing.  (The reverse 
of this, creating an actual schema from the defined types and views, is an 
exercise for the future, or maybe even for a reader :) )

Internally, the underlying data access is isolated in a single module, intended 
to facilitate connecting to alternative backends, which could be via SPARQL 
access.  (I'd also like to connect up with the linked data fragments work at 
some stage.)

If this looks like something that could be useful to anyone out there, about now 
might be a good time to offer feedback.  Once I have what I feel is a minimum 
viable product release, hopefully not too long now, I'm hoping to use feedback 
and collaborations to prioritize ongoing developments.

#g
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Received on Friday, 20 February 2015 18:19:56 UTC