On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 2/9/09 9:13 AM, Georgi Kobilarov wrote: > >> This is a point I have always brought up... it is hard! It is hard to >> produce LD and hard to consume LD. No sane person will want to do maintain >> this. Yves just explained everything he goes through and it is wayyy to >> much! The majority of the data on the web is stored in rdbms. Therefore, >> IMO, it is crucial to develop automatic ways of creating RDF from relational >> data and linking it automatically. If this is not going to happen, the whole >> web that runs on rdbms, will not have an incentive to create LD. This is my >> futuristic position. >> > > Do you know any solutions that produce RDF Linked Data from RDBMS sources? > Any that exist right now and can deliver such capability across any ODBC or > JDBC accessible DBMS? What about such a thing even going as far as providing > working examples for every major DBMS engine? Not yet... unfortunately. There are still open research problems: ontology matching, linking algorithms. All of this is needed to have such a system. > > > At what time in the future do you expect such a product to emerge? > When such a system exist, is when we can say that everybody is on the semantic web. Time... how about by the time I finish my PhD. :P > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: > http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen> > President& CEO > OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > >
