Re: RDB2RDF WG Agenda - Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Dear All,

Regrets for today's conference call. I am on vacation this week.

See you next week.

Marcelo

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Ezzat, Ahmed <Ahmed.Ezzat@hp.com> wrote:

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> *AGENDA Teleconference*
> W3C RDB2RDF Working Group telephone conference 2010-1-12
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> Tuesday, 12 January *24:00-18:00 UTC*
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> *Chair*: Ahmed Ezzat
> *Scribe*: Michael Hausenblas
> *W3C Staff*: Harry Halpin
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>     - *INTRODUCTION:*
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> * Good Standing participation:
> *http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#good-standing*<http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html>
> “Effective participation to RDB2RDF Working Group is expected to consume
> one work day per week for each participant; two days per week for editors.”
> * Charter: *http://www.w3.org/2009/08/rdb2rdf-charter*<http://www.w3.org/2009/08/rdb2rdf-charter>
> * Call for participation:
> *http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2009JulSep/0039.html*<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2009JulSep/0039.html>
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>     - *FUTURE MEETINGS:*
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> * Weekly Teleconference: Every Tuesday @17:00am UTC
> * WG First F2F meeting: TBD, at TBD
> * WG Second F2F meeting: TBD, at TBD
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>
> *Agenda:*
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>     1. Admin
>
>
>     - Roll call
>    - Approve minutes at *http://www.w3.org/2009/1**2**/1**5**
>    -RDB2RDF-minutes.html*<http://www.w3.org/2009/12/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html>
>    - Outstanding Actions?
>
>
>     1. *What is Next*:  We need to pin down in the next stage (~3 months) the
>    approach for mapping and what we will do regarding Linked Data by end of
>    March or mid April? In the mapping area, we need to support ETL
>    approach (mapping DB to materialized RDF then querying the RDF store) as
>    well as on-demand mapping.  From the presentations, I think I heard two
>    main approaches for mapping SQL views to RDF/OWL:
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>     - *SQL centric **appro**ach* (Oracle) by building triples tables and
>    leverages the SQL engine optimizer. Most of the work is done in SQL.
>    - *Semantic web centric** (lack of a better term)*: mapping DB view
>    into RDF/OWL classes mainly with little or database support, etc.
>
> Let us discuss in this meeting how to go about the mapping part: which
> approach we would adopt or possibly having the mapping language to support
> both and the choice between the two approaches is an option (something comes
> to mind, IDL language supports the notion of explicitly specifying an
> argument to be passed by value or by reference)?
>
> Also, we have not talked about supporting/leveraging SQL vendor specific
> capabilities
>
> There is also what we will do in Linked Data in the WG, Michael will send
> us his thoughts in that regard soon.
>
> Let us focus in this meeting on how to go about mapping first.  After
> Michael sends his mail we will also do the same for Linked Data.   The other
> issue that I would like us to cover is time frame; is end of March or mid
> April is reasonable?
>
>
>    1. AOB: Comments, Suggestions, etc.
>
>
> Ahmed
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