Re: Revised version of Proposed XG Recommendation

Kingsley:
I don't see how these examples help make the case that the W3C should 
start an effort to
standardize a language for mapping from Relational data to RDF and OWL.
The usecases make the point that such a standard will facilitate data 
integration and publishing Relational
data on the web.  I'm happy to add another usecase as long as it 
illustrates how the solution of an an important problem will be 
facilitated by this technology.

The survey document has pointers to several special-purpose technologies 
that have been used to map Relational data to RDF and OWL.  It includes 
a pointer to your webpage where I presume these examples can be found.

All the best, Ashok


Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
> On 1/2/09 12:16 PM, ashok malhotra wrote:
>> I did some work on this over the holidays which included adding the 
>> two usecases.
>> I'll be happy to add more usecases if folks want to write them.
>>
>> Please take a careful look.  We are getting close to the deadline so 
>> you close scrutiny is important.
> Ashok,
>
> I think we should add a case study that is based on a well known RDBMS 
> schema.
>
> At the current time we have complete Rdf2Rdb examples for the sample 
> databases associated with the following DBMS engines:
>
> 1. 
> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRDFViewsOracleHrDb 
> - Oracle (HR DD)
> 2. 
> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRDFViewsDB2SampleDb 
> - DB2 (Sample DB)
> 3. 
> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRDFViewNorthwind 
> - SQL Server (Northwind DB)
> 4. 
> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRDFViewsInformixStoresDemo 
> - Informix (Stores DB)
> 5. 
> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRDFViewsIngresTutDb 
> - Ingres (Tutorial DB)
> 6. 
> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRDFViewsProgressSQ92ISports 
> - Progress
> 7. 
> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtRDFViewsSybasePubs2Db 
> - Sybase (Pubs2)
>
> As you know, the DBMS communities consistently use the default 
> demonstration databases as ground-zero for all tutorial material. 
> Thus, as part of a broader effort to engage the RDBMS community in 
> general, we should include mappings examples based on each of the 
> above. Ideally, their should be Triplify and D2RQ variants of what 
> we've done to balance out this effort.
>
> When a person from any of the DBMS realms above poses the question: 
> What does Rdb2Rdf facilitate above and beyond what SQL currently 
> offers, there should be a set of pages in place that demonstrate the 
> fundamental point: record-level data access by reference using HTTP 
> based Identifiers. An example of such pages:
>
> 1. 
> http://demo.openlinksw.com/about/html/http://demo.openlinksw.com/Northwind/Customer/ALFKI%23this 
> - Page about "ALFKI" an Entity in the Northwind Database
> 2. 
> http://data.openlinksw.com/about/html/http://data.openlinksw.com/oplweb/product_release/virtuoso-uim-unisvr-ent/5.0/x86_64-sun-solaris2.10-64/virt50%23this 
> - Page about a specific release of Virtuoso for the Solaris x86_64 
> platform .
>
>
> Happy New Year!
>

Received on Sunday, 4 January 2009 22:18:00 UTC