Hugh, Sorry, you're right. I overlooked the "non-technical uses" phrase in Dominic's message.
Let me spin it a little differently, then. If you're a techie, you can use these tools to create N-Triple data-dumps that non-techies can download and use with Unix-style commands like grep and sort and wc. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Hugh Glaser [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:53 PM > To: Young,Jeff (OR) > Cc: [email protected]; public-lod@w3 org > Subject: Re: Big data applications for general users based on RDF - > where are they? > > Hi Jeff, > I assume you aren't suggesting that such tools are suitable for "non- > technical users", as Dominic asked. > So you must be saying something else? > That it is pretty easy, but people don't do it? > Hugh > > On 22 Jun 2013, at 17:27, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > >
