- From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:25:12 -0400
- To: Eric Neumann <eneumann@teranode.com>
- CC: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, rdf123@googlegroups.com
Eric Neumann wrote: > ... I have a question : does your conversion assume each column > can be represented as only a predicate type? If so, what about > cases where the columns indicate objects, as in the gene expression > as per the below example: > ------- tissue1 tissue2 tissue3 tissue4 ... > geneA val# val# val# val# ... > geneB val# val# val# val# ... > geneC val# val# val# val# ... > ... Yes, RDF123 supports this example and much more complicated ones. Earlier spreadsheet to RDF systems generally made the assumption that each row corresponded to an instance and specified values for its properties. In RDF123, each row can create any number of instances. Take a look at the examples in http://rdf123.umbc.edu/examples/ Tim -- Tim Finin, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Univ of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Cir, Baltimore MD 21250. finin@umbc.edu http://umbc.edu/~finin 410-455-3522 fax:-3969 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu
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