- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:28:50 +0100
- To: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
One note on the "conversion" issue: There do not seem to be too many data sets that are well "in tune" with the RDF philosophy. It may be easy to get something that looks like RDF, but then again you can also convert arbitrary flat text files to XML by adding a start and an end tag to each line :-) I'm not too optimistic about technologies such as XSLT, except perhaps for trivial cases; my feeling is that most (bioinformatics) databases have data models that are such that nothing but a full blown programming language will do. (And a lot of manual clean up work may be required in addition.)
Received on Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:29:59 UTC