- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:29:39 +0100
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
I was wondering if anyone had anything for conveniently manually managing relatively large amounts of data in an RDF store. Something comparable to the GUI tools available for most RDBMSs. What I would ideally like is something that could do some (table-based?) visualization with filtering, so unwanted triples could be sifted and deleted (I'm not so interested in the DL aspects, just basic instance data management). I realise there are tools available (Protege etc) that offer a lot of manipulation facilities, but I think all those I've seen would require dumping the data from the existing store, loading that into the tool, processing as needed then pushing it back again. But this seems a lot of unnecessary work, surely it's possible to address an existing store directly, more generically? This strikes me as being something generally desirable though obviously needing quite a bit of work to develop. A possible approach that comes to mind is having a GUI generate SPARQL queries on the fly to populate a local model from the live store, then the user manipulation being translated back into SPARQL+delete/update which goes back to the store. I don't know how feasible such an interface would be on existing tools, but it seems reasonable in principle at least... Another possible approach, again I'm not sure how sane, would be to do query rewriting the other way than usual - taking SQL queries and translating them into SPARQL (+delete/update). If that were feasible, then the SQL views could maybe be addressed through an existing RDMBS GUI tool. Failing a general solution - anyone got a good tool for Redland? Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com
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