Re: SPARQL/SQL/D2R/dbview (un)scheduled topic chat 8 Jun minutes/record

My appologies to those who get this email twice but I wasn't certain all 
the recipients were subscribed to public-sparql-dev for the purpose of 
this topic.  I'll redirect all subsequent responses to public-sparql-dev.


On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Chris Bizer wrote:

> Chimezie, if you need any support in implementing D2R in Python, let Richard or me know and we will support you where we can.

Excellent! I was initially discouraged from attempting such 
an implementation but I very recently wrote (I'll add the links to the 
Wiki) a mapping from Basic Triple Patterns to SQL commands (generated 
dynamically from an abstract representation of the target SQL schema) that 
got my feet wet enough to where I don't think it would be too difficult a 
prospect - especially given how expressive the D2RQ mapping language is.

In my case the mapping was from basic triple patterns to a *specific* 
SQL schema optimized with efficient N3 persistence in mind, but extending this 
infrastructure to translate those same triple patterns to SQL queries 
against an arbitrary SQL schema mapped to RDF via D2RQ should be straight 
forward and could feasibly reuse alot of the utility methods I ended up 
having to create for various SQL nuances/caveats.

I'm still wrapping my head around the mapping language and doing some 
preliminary design so I appreciate the sentiment and will redirect any 
questions / insights / difficulties I run into.

Chimezie Ogbuji
Lead Systems Analyst
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue/ W26
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Office: (216)444-8593
ogbujic@ccf.org

Received on Friday, 16 June 2006 19:24:02 UTC