Relational DB wrapper link (Was: Re: SKOS vs OWL

[Brian Thomas]

On Wednesday 10 October 2007, you wrote:
> Cool - do you have a link?

	Shucks, do I have to give up my 'secrets' before I'm ready to demo ;) ?!?

	Oh well, Ed let the cat out of the bag, so here's a tasty link for you all:

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/d2rq-map/

	{there are other projects which do this, but this one fits the bill for us..it
	has sesame and Jena integration which is nice}
	
	I hope to release a URL to a test server in the coming weeks so that we can
	see this in action (practical application!!). We are also preparing a user
	tool which would overlay this repository so that the scientist doesn't have
	to author SPARCL, or worry about changing RDF into VOTable.

	laters,

	=brian

> 
> T.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ed Shaya [mailto:eshaya at umd.edu]
> > Sent: 10 October 2007 16:55
> > To: Tony Linde
> > Cc: 'Norman Gray'; 'Brian Thomas'
> > Subject: Re: SKOS vs OWL
> > 
> > 
> > > I can imagine Roy's frequent sarcastic comments don't help you. The
> > only way
> > > to stop such comments is to get real stuff working - Catch 22.
> > 
> > Catch 22 indeed.  Nevertheless, Brian just came upon a gem.  He found
> > an
> > app that forms a semantic wrapper around relational databases.  It
> > means
> > you can do sparql query on relational databases plus some supplemental
> > metadata in RDF.  This could bring the day of everyone doing semantic
> > queries much closer.
> 
>