Fwd: Enterprise information system

Hi Hugh


2015-02-25 23:06 GMT+01:00 Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org>:

>
> But what if you start from scratch?
>
> So, the company wants to base all its stuff around Linked Data
> technologies, starting with information about employees, what they did and
> are doing, projects, etc.,
>
...

> Is there a solution out of the box for all the data capture from
> individuals, and reports, queries, etc.?
>

There is no out of the box solution,
if one would exist you would know about it :) , it would have the features,
plus the LD advantages.

BUT there are people like me working toward the Semantic Enterprise
information system.

Even if there is no need to share and publish your data, let me remind the
advantages over traditional development ( traditional i.e. SQL or MongoDB) :

   1. Data models and data sources are available (Linked Open Data)
   2. 40 implementations of graph datases to the W3C standard SPARQL
   3. RDF data models are more flexible than SQL in terms of cardinality
   4. simple inferences out of the box (inheritance)
   5. easy to have interconnected yet independent applications by sharing
   URI's of common objects
   6. no need of Object RDF mapping, there are DSL to express business
   logic in terms of RDF
   7. Easily customized open source generic applications

The point 7 is were progress is being made.
There is not yet the equivalent of Ruby On Rails, Symphony, or Django for
the Semantic Web and SPARQL databases, but work is being done. The
strategic item is the input form management.
Some frameworks exist that faciitate the creation of applications with form
specifications in RDF, leveraging on RDF vocabularies, and storing in RDF.
I have writen a review of semantic_based frameworks :
http://svn.code.sf.net/p/eulergui/code/trunk/eulergui/html/semantic_based_apps_review.html
of which the most promising seem :

   - semantic_forms : https://github.com/jmvanel/semantic_forms
   - Vitro https://github.com/vivo-project/Vitro


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Jean-Marc Vanel
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Rule-based programming, Semantic Web
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-- 
Jean-Marc Vanel
Déductions SARL - Consulting, services, training,
Rule-based programming, Semantic Web
http://deductions-software.com/
+33 (0)6 89 16 29 52
Twitter: @jmvanel , @jmvanel_fr ; chat: irc://irc.freenode.net#eulergui