- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:58:12 +0100
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@topicmapping.com>, Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>, Timothy Falconer <timothy@immuexa.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
On 4 Jan 2006, at 20:23, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > On 4 Jan 2006, at 20:03, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> One answer is: don't! The SemWeb is about conecting the data to >> what it means. >> Keep the data in the place where it works and runs fast. >> Find/Write ontologies about what the data is about. >> Run a virtual RDF server (supporting SPARQL if a large DB) on top >> of the data. >> publish the connection between the database columns and the >> ontolgies. > > I don't get this last bit. Why would someone know what database > column a bit of data comes from? Isn't this an implementation > detail that should better be hidden from consumers of the RDF? check out d2rq http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/d2rq/ Any other tools that do the same? Henry > Richard > > >> >> Look at ways to connect the DB with others inside & outside the >> company. >> >> Write new reports in terms the model at higher level of >> abstraction, using the RDF apis. >> >> Tim
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