Hi Dominic, Good question.
You may be interested in the unusual approach in: * www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1.pdf www.reengineeringllc.com/EnergyIndependence1Video.htm (Flash video with audio) www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/EnergyIndependence1.agent www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/RDFQueryLangComparison1.agent* Apologies if you have seen this before, and thanks for comments. -- Adrian Internet Business Logic Open Apps for Open Data A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English Q/A Apps over SQL and RDF Online at www.reengineeringllc.com Shared use is free, and there are no advertisements Adrian Walker Reengineering On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Dominic Oldman <do...@oldman.me.uk> wrote: > 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 <do_h...@btopenworld.com>; > * To: * jyo...@oclc.org <jyo...@oclc.org>; > * 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) <jyo...@oclc.org>; > * To: * do...@oldman.me.uk <do...@oldman.me.uk>; public-lod@w3 org < > public-lod@w3.org>; > * 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:do...@oldman.me.uk] > *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 > > >