Re: Comments on Use Case for discussion on telcon

Ted,

Good point. I think if we generalize scenario 4 as you propose then Lee's
use case can fit.

Juan Sequeda
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Ted Thibodeau Jr <
tthibodeau@openlinksw.com> wrote:

>
> *** Juan Sequeda wrote:
> >>> Lee, I propose that you write a use-case that your company has
> >>> and this may lead into a scenario 5.
>
> ** Lee Feigenbaum <lee@thefigtrees.net> wrote:
> >> Can you explain what you mean? I thought that's what I _had_ done.
> >> I'm not at liberty to write-up actual customers' database schemas,
> >> which is why I simplified these use cases to the relevant (to us)
> >> points.
>
> * Juan Sequeda wrote:
> > You state:
> >
> >    My organization's uses of this technology all fall broadly under
> >    the category of needing to expose RDB data to tools that consume
> >    data via arbitrary SPARQL queries.
> >
> > This can be a scenario on its own, or where would this fit in the
> > other 4 scenarios that I propose?
>
>
> Lee's organization's use above seems to me to clearly fall into
> Juan's Scenario #4, --
>
> > Scenario 4. I'm not interested in integrating my RDB with other
> > sources (structured, rdf, unstructured). However, I do want to
> > expose my RDB as RDF because I want semantic web search engines
> > that crawl RDF data to index me and I want to become a Linked Data
> > hub and let other people link to me.
>
> -- which could be reworded to be somewhat more general, e.g., --
>
>   ...because I want my RDB data to be available for SPARQL or
>   other RDF-based querying, and/or for others to integrate
>   with other data sources (structured, rdf, unstructured).
>
> This doesn't require crawling by search engines, nor becoming a hub
> (which can have scary connotations for small organizations), though
> such exposure and accessibility *might* be chosen.
>
> Also, Lee's restriction against exposing actual schemas and data is
> part of why Use Cases should be generalized, and not be written as
> Case Studies.
>
>
> Be seeing you,
>
> Ted
>
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