- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:43:12 -0500
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com, public-xg-rdb2rdf <public-xg-rdb2rdf@w3.org>
Hi Ashok, all, Here my use case description from the Triplify perspective: In order to make the Semantic Web useful to ordinary Web users RDF and OWL have to be deployed on the Web in a much larger scale. Web applications such as Content Management Systems, online shops or community applications (e.g. Wikis, Blogs, Fora) already back most of the existing Web sites and store their data in relational databases (cf. [1]). Providing a standardized way to map the relational data structures behind these Web applications into RDF, RDF-Schema and OWL will facilitate a broad penetration and enrichment of the existing Web with RDF data and ontologies and thus be crucial for novel semantic browsing and search applications. (By supporting the long tail of Web applications and thus counteracting the centralization of the Web 2.0 applications the planned RDB2RDF standardization will help to give the control over data back to end-users and thus promote a democratization of the Web.) For this use case scenario, the developed mapping technique should be easily implementable for light-weight Web applications and have a shallow learning curve in order to be adopted by Web developers. [1] Auer, Dietzold, Lehmann, Hellmann, Aumueller: Triplify - Lightweight Linked Data Publication from Relational Databases, submitted to WWW 2009, online at http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer/publication/triplify.pdf. Feel free to change the text as you please or request modifications. The sentence in brackets could be perceived a little politically/ideologically - so feel free to soften or omit. Best, Sören
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