[BIORDF] edit of Top Level Task - scalability

After e-mail with Susie, I have edited the BioRDF Top Level Task [1] to 
reflect some of the scalability issues.

Some of my comments to Susie were:
> I can imagine 'collecting' data into an RDF repository for a demo but
> we should keep in mind that this approach won't scale. Example: One of
> the data files that we imported was 53Mb. Once transformed into RDF,
> it has become ~800Mb. Obviously, this is survivable for reasonably
> small datasets, but..
> 
> That's why HCLSIG should hope to eventually have RDF export
> functionality "on demand" at the data source (instigate widespread
> adoption of SW values by omics database managers?). But, lately, I
> think that in the long run, rather than convert legacy databases into
> RDF repositories or export from them, that query mapping/rewriting
> approaches such as D2RQ[2]
> could be more effective. Also, federation/p2p/broker approaches could
> help to consolidate biobase interfaces for the user. Does this say
> anything to you?

-scott

[1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/BioRDF_Top_Level_Task
[2] http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/d2rq/
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M. Scott Marshall
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Received on Monday, 27 March 2006 14:49:58 UTC