Bob, you could do me a favour by sending this as a comment to the [email protected] list, even if it's just this one paragraph. Translation tables was indeed one of the contentious issues, and showing interest in the feature will increase the probability that they will still get in.
Cheers, Richard On 20 Sep 2011, at 20:03, Bob Ferris wrote: > Hi, > > so far the R2RML draft looks pretty good. However, I guess that I'll > miss d2rq:TranslationTable. I think this is a quite essential > functionality in this transformation process. > Unfortunately, this requires a programming language independent > representation of translation functions or an implementation that can > handle references to classes of specific programming languages (I guess, > CORBA-style or something like this). > > Cheers, > > > Bo > > > On 9/20/2011 8:48 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> As many of you may know, W3C has been working on a standard mapping language >> for database-to-RDF mappings called R2RML. >> >> R2RML addresses the same need as the D2RQ mapping language, but has the >> potential to become a standard that is implemented by many if not all >> vendors in this area. I am serving as one of the editors of this >> specification. >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/r2rml/ >> >> Today R2RML is going to Last Call, which means it is ready for public review >> and W3C invites comments from the public. The document is here: >> >> I think that the spec could benefit a lot from feedback, comments and >> reviews by the members of the D2RQ community. If you have any opinions on >> the features and design of the D2RQ mapping language, then please take some >> time to have a look and send comments! For example: >> >> - Are all features that you consider essential present in R2RML? >> - Is the purpose of R2RML clearly communicated in the spec? >> - Does the spec work as an introduction to the R2RML language? >> - How does the spec compare to the D2RQ mapping language documentation in >> terms of ease of understanding? >> - Where would you like to see more examples, figures, informative >> explanations? >> >> Comments are invited to the mailing list [email protected] . >> The comment period ends on November 1. >> >> W3C also published the “Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF”: >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdb-direct-mapping/ >> >> This document specifies a “default mapping” from databases to RDF, much like >> the RDF mapping created by D2RQ's generate-mapping script. Comments on this >> document are also highly welcome and should be sent to the same mailing list. >> >> All the best, >> Richard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > d2rq-map-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/d2rq-map-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ d2rq-map-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/d2rq-map-devel
