Re: Direct mapping for spreadsheets

Cambridge Semantics has done fantastic work on integrating spreadsheets
with RDF:
http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/products/anzo-express
They've been doing it for years.

David

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 16:36 +0100, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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