On 14/02/10 5:58 PM, "Peter Ansell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am interested in creating an RDF output format to BioMart but I am a
> little lost looking through the source code about where to start. To
> start off with I would like to add functionality to support URI's for
> columns to match RDF predicates, and add URI support for identifiers
> in the database so that they can be identified as items in the RDF. I
> know it will require some changes to the XML definitions, and an
> output class to suit, but I am not sure what needs to be done other
> than that, or how much I have to rely on the current code for doing
> that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
Hi Peter,
We are in the middle of re-writing the configuration system so we can easily
extend it contain the predicate information. I was thinking about your
problem recently and thought that rather dumping marts to RDF would probably
be better to think about either SPARQL end point or some other web services
based equivalent to make mart look semantic web compliant. For instance we
could extend the existing web service to return RDF triples. Would that
help?
A.
