Re: Direct mapping for spreadsheets

> I was looking into RDFizing of spreadsheets (GRDDL on Microsoft's
> SpreadsheetML, more specifically).

IIRC, Dave Reynolds has something called D2RML (see [1], slide 26 etc)  ...

Cheers,
    Michael

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/der42/industrialized-linked-data

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On 27 Jul 2012, at 16:25, Martynas Jusevičius wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I was looking into RDFizing of spreadsheets (GRDDL on Microsoft's
> SpreadsheetML, more specifically).
> 
> I know there are multiple tools, products, and mappings (such as
> XLWrap, TopBraid Composer, Google Refine etc).
> However I need a generic mapping, and none of them seem to do the job.
> I just need to lift the spreadsheet data to the RDF level, and from
> there I will be able to map it to a higher-level vocabulary using
> SPARQL CONSTRUCT queries (with or without user assistance).
> 
> The closest thing to what I'm thinking about is the RDB to RDF direct
> mapping [1].
> Obviously spreadsheets do not have primary keys, column names and
> datatypes. They seem however to be a more general case than the
> relational, and they still have table (worksheet) names as well
> row/column indices.
> 
> Trying to follow the R2R mapping, I came up with this basic example:
> 
>  @base <http://foo.example/spreadsheet.xlsx> .
> 
>  <#sheet1/1> <#sheet1/A> "content of A1" .
>  <#sheet1/1> <#sheet1/B> "content of B1" .
>  <#sheet1/2> <#sheet1/A> "content of A2" .
>  <#sheet1/2> <#sheet1/B> "content of B2" .
> 
> This has an issue with addressing resources within packages, which has
> been widely discussed [2] but not solved, AFAIK.
> 
> Has something like this been already attempted? I don't want to
> reinvent the wheel.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdb-direct-mapping/
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Oct/0126.html
> 
> Martynas
> graphity.org
>

Received on Friday, 27 July 2012 15:36:44 UTC