Re: RDB2RDF Usecase

Hi Ahmed:
I agree that data integration, what you call the silo pain, is a key 
usecase for RDB2RDF.
If we could add a data integration usecase to the Recommendation, that 
would be great.

Can you write up the usecase more formally? Perhaps something from your 
experience.

All the best, Ashok


Ezzat, Ahmed wrote:
> Hello,
> One observation I have is we need to be clearer on Rdb2Rdf for solving 
> the silo pain. Rdb2Rdf is a must but not sufficient technology to 
> integrate silos. As you need ot reconcile the results from each data 
> source together before the data is useful enough to apply SPARQL as an 
> example; which is outside the Rdb2Rdf framework.
> Regarding user scenario, I see a lot of value in the Enterprise 
> Information Management (EIM) area where you integrate data warehouse 
> with content in the enterprise (i.e., not using current technology of 
> NLP + converting to XML then shredding elements in the data warehouse 
> database columns) to be able to return more actionable information. 
> For example, a query to a datawarehouse today can be” “tell me all 
> companies that bought $1M equipments last month” ß easy one. Now with 
> integration of structured and unstructured data in the enterprise you 
> can ask “ tell me all companies that bought $1M equipments and had 
> complaints?” The point here is customer complaints typically is in 
> email content and the list of companies who bough is in the data 
> warehouse. By being able to integrate the results of search and SQL at 
> high-level as RDF sub-graphs, etc, you can answer the 2^nd question 
> transparently w/o manual work.
> In summary, I suggest to position Rdb2Rdf as a core technology that 
> would help in solving higher level problems like some of the examples 
> in this email thread.
> Regards,
> Ahmed
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