Re: Bi-directional mapping (RDF2RDB)

On 1/10/09 12:26 PM, ashok malhotra wrote:
>
> Hi Soeren:
> This is an important area but I think we should wait until the WG 
> starts and then add this an a requirement.
> If we add it to our final report we risk diluting our message.
> All the best, Ashok
Ashok,

It would certainly pose a distraction, so I agree.

But we can add a note that indicates the notion of update-able views 
isn't lost re. the thinking of the group etc..

Kingsley
>
>
> Sören Auer wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as much as I remember we did so far only discuss the mapping from RDB 
>> to RDF. In certain settings it might, however, also make sense to be 
>> able to update the RDB using SPARUL [1]. This might of course be 
>> pretty difficult and not even possible in the general case. In the DB 
>> community there is quite some work about updateable views and some 
>> DBMS even support them - if our mapping would be able to distinguish 
>> between mappings which represent updateable views and those which 
>> don't we would get (partial) updateability for free.
>> Maybe this is to much to be discussed now in the XG or to be added as 
>> a requirement to the recommendation (or shall we?) - but probably 
>> worth keeping in mind once a WG was chartered.
>>
>> Have a nice weekend everybody,
>>
>> Sören
>>
>>
>> [1] http://jena.hpl.hp.com/~afs/SPARQL-Update.html
>>
>
>


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Received on Saturday, 10 January 2009 17:58:11 UTC