Fwd: RDB2RDF Recommendations are published

RDB2RDF finally reached REC status, congrats to everyone involved.

For those that are unaware, this is a great way to use a classic relational
database back end with linked data, giving 3 great flavours of data storage

- flat files
- nosql triple or quad stores with SPARQL
- mapped relational databases

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
Date: 28 September 2012 10:38
Subject: RDB2RDF Recommendations are published
To: W3C RDB2RDF <public-rdb2rdf-wg@w3.org>
Cc: public-lod Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, SW-forum Semantic
Web community <semantic-web@w3.org>



http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-r2rml-20120927/

http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-rdb-direct-mapping-20120927/

http://semanticweb.com/transforming-relational-data-to-rdf-r2rml-becomes-official-w3c-recommendation_b32395

Thank you very much, everyone involved! A big kudos to the wonderful
Editors of R2RML and DM, my co-chair and all the WG members, early ones and
the ones who pulled through to the very end!

Now, the real work starts: the success of a standard is, IMHO, measured by
the uptake. We have now a stable proposal on the table and need to convince
industry players and end-users alike that it is worth investing in this
piece of infrastructure.

Link long and prosper!

Cheers,
           Michael

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Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland, Europe
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