- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:55:03 -0500
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- CC: Sören Auer <soeren.auer@gmail.com>, public-xg-rdb2rdf <public-xg-rdb2rdf@w3.org>, Orri Erling <oerling@openlinksw.com>
On 1/10/09 12:06 PM, ashok malhotra wrote: > > Thanks, Soeren! I will put this in because we need an enterprise > usecase but I wish we had one that was more specific. > All the best, Ashok Ashok, I will work with Soren & Orri re. an Enterprise usescase based on a contemporary enterprise problem: cost-effective creation, dissemination, and retention of knowledge that uses new and emerging technologies (e.g. Rdb2Rdf) atop existing infrastructure. This case will incorporate applications of Rdb2Rdf to issues such as : enterprise search, MDM, and distributed collaborative applications (i.e. Blogs, Wikis, Bookmark Sharing etc). Kingsley > > > Sören Auer wrote: >> >> Following the discussions on the mailinglist and yesterdays telco I >> drafted another use-case description. >> I think a use-case scenario with prospectively wide impact on the >> business domain could nicely complement the community (Triplify), >> research (Nicotine Dependency) and administrative-data (Ordinance >> Survey) use cases. >> Currently, there is some inhomogeneity in the level of abstraction in >> the use cases: Ordinance and Nicotine address very specific problems, >> whereas Triplify and BIS are of slightly broader nature. Probably no >> problem, but maybe worth checking for consistency with other XG >> recommendations. >> >> Here the BIS use case description (feel free to change, add or >> completely omit the paragraph): >> >> >> *Integration of Business Information Systems* >> >> Efficient information and data exchange between application systems >> within and across enterprises is of paramount importance in the >> increasingly networked and IT-dominated business spheres. Existing >> Business Information Systems such as CRM, CMS and ERP systems use >> relational database backends for persistence. RDF and Linked Data can >> provide data exchange and integration interfaces for such application >> systems, which are easy to implement and use, especially in settings >> where a loose and flexible coupling of the systems is required. >> The mapping language to be standardized within the proposed WG will >> rapidly simplify the publishing of enterprise data and information >> from the relational data backends and thus facilitate the >> interlinking and exchange of information between business information >> systems. For this use case scenario on-demand transformation of >> relational data to RDF, scalability and completeness with regard to >> the relational algebra are central requirements. >> >> > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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