We as a community can solve the semantic interoperability issue by reusing existing RDF vocabularies as much as possible. Take Schema.org, for example, as a good starting point.
Jeff From: Dominic Oldman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:56 PM To: Young,Jeff (OR); public-lod@w3 org Subject: Re: RE: Big data applications for general users based on RDF - where are they? So publishing linked data is easy but creating applications that make use of it is a completely different kettle of fish and very difficult, particularly in the way I described. My assumption is that the linked data community is keen to create these user applications and not consign linked data to isolated back end processing jobs and a tool for computer scientists. How do we as a community solve the semantic interoperability issue? Dominic Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ________________________________ From: Dominic Oldman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Subject: Re: RE: Big data applications for general users based on RDF - where are they? Sent: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 4:41:03 PM So publishing linked data is easy but creating applications that make use of it is a completely different kettle of fish and very difficult, particularly in the way I described. My assumption is that the linked data community is keen to create these user applications and not consign linked data to isolated back end processing jobs and a tool for computer scientists. How do we as a community solve the semantic interoperability issue? Dominic Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ________________________________ From: Young,Jeff (OR) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; public-lod@w3 org <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; Subject: RE: Big data applications for general users based on RDF - where are they? Sent: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 4:27:31 PM It’s pretty easy to write an XSL stylesheet to convert “records” into RDF/XML, and then write a little M/R job to run the XSL against a big bulk of records to boil it down. The intellectual challenge is the semantic mapping of idiomatic data into RDF vocabulary terms. Jeff From: Dominic Oldman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:16 PM To: public-lod@w3 org Subject: Big data applications for general users based on RDF - where are they? Why are there so few useful linked data applications for general non technical users that provide functions that people need to support and enhance their work and which operate over large amounts of data owned by different organisations with a high degree of semantic interoperability and robustness? Dominic Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
