Re: use case summary conversation from telecon

I'm sending this to the actual WG mailing list

(Ted, you sent it to the old XG mailing list)

Juan Sequeda
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com
> wrote:

> All --
>
> In today's telecon, I gave a rough summary of what I thought were the
> underlying use cases, upon which the existing examples stood.  I'm not
> an official member of this XG (yet), so can't edit the wiki myself,
> but upon Michael's request, here's what I said --
>
> The three cases are roughly --
>
> 1. join structured data (SQL) to structured data, from incompatible
>   schema, or where data is dirty, poorly normalized, lacking proper
>   keys/indices, etc. (this matches Angela's example)
>
> 2. join structured data (SQL) to semi-structured (existing RDF)
>   (this matches Juan's example)
>
> 3. join structured data (SQL) to unstructured (HTML, Word doc, etc.)
>   (this matches Michael's example)
>
> All three can be done if the SQL is transformed to RDF (and in the
> third, if the unstructured is likewise passed through some triples-
> generator like the Virtuoso Sponger).
>
> Thus, each provides motivation for RDB2RDF transformation, and all can
> be understood by someone who hasn't yet joined the RDF/SPARQL camp.
>
> This is not *about* selling RDF to the unconverted, but it will still
> unavoidably have that effect (which I think is not a bad thing).
>
> Be seeing you,
>
> Ted
>
>
>
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