- From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:00:04 -0700
- To: david faibish <u455354@site.uottawa.ca>
- Cc: bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com, jonas@paranormal.se, eric@tux.w3.org, emiller@oclc.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
David, since I set up this page, substantial amount of work has been done by developers and researchers along the lines of RDF/DB. In a way, the page fulfilled its purpose: to draw attention to the topic. My recent research deals with so-called "generic model management". Generic model management is an emerging field of database research that aims at simplifying the development of metadata-intensive applications, such as data integration, software engineering, website management, or network modeling applications. Such applications are complex and hard to build. They manipulate a variety of metadata artifacts, or models, and mappings between models. A major goal of generic model management is to develop a database infrastructure in which a set of high-level algebraic operators, such as Match, Merge, or Compose, are applied to models and mappings as a whole and reduce the cost of application development. If you are interested in the topic, I'd encourage you to have a look at [1] where you can find a demo of the prototype that I built and the relevant papers. The prototype leverages a number of techniques, including RDF and RDF/DB. More information can be found at [2,3]. Best, Sergey [1] http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/mm/rondo/ [2] http://research.microsoft.com/db/ModelMgt/ [3] http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/Research/meta.html david faibish wrote: > re: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/db.html > > actvity on your site indicates that work stopped in 2001 .... is the > project deas? (why is it the most useful things are always orphaned > after you find them on the web?!) > > please advise to its status -- and if dead, what direction your research > has taken since ... still rdf/db? > > thanx: david faibish
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