Hi Andrea, is this an IKS or Stanbol question? I understand that you can not maintain this component anymore. So we should look for other people/new contributors. In my understanding this is the usual flow in an open-source project. I don't see any reason to remove the component.
Best, - Fabian Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2011 schrieb Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese : > Hi all, > > I'd like to bring to your attention the current state of the Reengineer > component and its next future (if any) in the project. > Before being part of Stanbol, the design and the implementation of this > component was started by the CNR team in the IKS project. > Right now, we at CNR have no more resources in order to put effort in its > maintenance. I am wondering if someone in Stanbol wants to continue to keep > care and contribute to the evolution of the reengineer otherwise we should > discuss about its possible removal from Stanbol. My personal opinion is > that it could be somehow merged with the cmsadapter. > I remember you that the main functionality of the reengineer is to extract > RDF triples from both relational databases and XML files. The > transformation (reengineering) is performed according to an ontology [1,2] > which describes the structure of the original source. In case of RDBMS, the > output of the component is a RDF dataset described (rdf:type triples) in > terms of tables, columns, raws. Primary keys and foreign keys allows to > generate respectively URIs and relations between objects in the dataset. On > the other hand in case of XMLs. the output is always a RDF dataset but the > fact it is described in terms of elements, attributes and in general any > descriptor part of an XML and XMLSchema. > > Note that parts of Stanbol Reengineer, namely the base API and the XML > plugin, were extensively used in an important knowledge extraction > component of the AmI Case demonstrator. This was billed as an effective > usage example of the IKS, and one of the earliest at that, so at least > those parts should survive in some form. Especially since the AmI > environment will be setup again for the Y3 Review. Even having them as > external bundles in IKS and not in Stanbol would be acceptable. > > -- > Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese > Semantic Technology Laboratory (STLab) > Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology (ISTC) > National Research Council (CNR) > Via Nomentana 56, Roma - Italy > > [1] http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/iks/dbs_l1.owl > [2] http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/iks/oxml.owl > >
