Hi Fabian, all, thanks for your quick reply. it is mainly a Stanbol question but it also involves IKS as the reengineer has been used in the AmI Case. Your understanding it's mine too.
Best. Andrea On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Fabian Christ wrote: > 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 >> >>
