Re: mapping a relational database as RDF

I'm not sure I necessarily grok every part of this use case.

Could someone suggest what kinds of requirements would arise
from this use case (i.e. I can't see where the line is being
drawn, or proposed to be drawn, between what DAWG would be
specifying and what would be application specific, e.g. the
RDF layer atop teh RDBMS).

Patrick


On Mar 25, 2004, at 23:14, ext Dan Connolly wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:51, Rob Shearer wrote:
>> A user has a large volume of data stored in a traditional RDBMS, and
>> currently queries that data using SQL.
>>
>> The user wishes to expose an RDF view of the the database. The user
>> should be able to translate his SQL queries into RDF queries with very
>> little need for additional custom code.
>>
>> This clearly isn't really a use case in its own right; it's starting a
>> level higher at the abstract requirements.
>>
>> Is there any support for such a requirement?
>
> Yes, I think so.
>
> We have some Semantic Web Advanced
> Development experience in this area:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDB-RDF.html
>   http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/dbork/dbview.py
>
>   http://www.w3.org/1999/07/13-persistant-RDF-DB
>   (that's what google says when I ask it about "eric rdf sql".
>   Is that your work on going from algae to SQL and back, ericp?)
>
> That experience was one of the things that convinced the director
> that it was time to standardize this stuff. We couldn't get
> research funding for it any more. They said it was too straightforward,
> and that industry was going to take care of that sort of
> stuff pretty soon.
>
> Some use cases I personally have lived thru include:
>
> (1) a meeting registration query. see
>   "Aside: Fun with Relational Databases on the Semantic Web"
>   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/meetings/tech-200303/
>
> and
>
> (2) grabbing some human resources stuff out of a database.
> It's in this Makefile:
>
> [[[
> #query the management database for resources from the Semantic Web
> activity:
> SWQ='http://swada.w3.org:9000/manage/.dbq? 
> name1=Resources&fields1=ResourceID....'
>
> swEffort.rdf: dbview-manage
> 	echo query is the last one...
> 	$(WGET) $(SWQ) -O $@
> ]] -- http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Makefile
>
> Hmm... I can't remember if I actually used the output of that query
> for anything.
>
>>  Is it worth working up a
>> few use cases which include RDBMS schema, their RDF translations, and
>> the SQL queries that we'd like to be able to translate?
>
> I expect so.
>
> -- 
> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
> see you at the WWW2004 in NY 17-22 May?
>
>

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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
patrick.stickler@nokia.com

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