Re: FAQ: Is there a converter from format XYZ to RDF?

[+ cc Susie to the list]

Hi Dan,

sorry for the late reply, but I was on vacations with a very occasional
peek into my emails...

Such a list would be very valuable; no later than last week EricN was
asking me for a list like that, though his interest was more in
direction of an Excel->RDF mapper. I agree it should be on the wiki for
now. My experiences in moving the list of tools to the wiki:

http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemanticWebTools

are really good, quite a number of updates came from the community since
it was published.

One possibility is, actually, to add this list to the very same wiki
page, rather than having a separate one; but if you decide to go with a
separate list, it should certainly be linked from there.

But... as Danny also remarked, this comes at the perfect moment for the
SWEO as well. We are now in the process of setting up a separate Task
Force on 'resource gathering' which has to look at what type of
resources (software, but also books, tutorials, conferences, etc) should
be catalogued by the SWEO and how. This list or, more exactly, this
topic is certainly one to consider. Hence the copy of this mail to Susie.

If you want, I can forward your mail to the SWEO as an information, or
you can also do it. I did not want to do it without your approval. But
it is good to have this before this coming Wednesday, when we will have
the first telco of the year.

Thanks Dan

Ivan

Dan Connolly wrote:
> Ivan,
> 
> TimBL just mailed the maintainers of
>   http://simile.mit.edu/RDFizers/
> asking them to add
>   http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/ldif2n3.py
> 
> He suggested this should go in a wiki... the esw wiki, maybe.
> 
> I thought about creating such a topic, but I don't want
> to do so without (a) incoming links and some thought
> about the name and (b) a critical mass of content.
> I think Tim has a slide or two with lists of converters;
> I suppose I could find those in 10 minutes or so...
> 
> So I started thinking about what budget this time
> could come out of, and I thought it should perhaps
> come out of the SemWeb EO WG budget.
> 
> I don't know the temperature in that group very well yet.
> Would you please either take this task there or
> to semweb-cg or to t-and-s? A "no" reply is also
> an option.
> 

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