First of all ... Good Job! :)
Second, a suggestion which may make the infrastructure more palatable:
The metadata (including linked data identifiers) we deal with is consumed but
not destroyed. Moreover, it does not stray far from room temperature (don't
tell the Marketing Department, it will break their hearts). The mechanical
analog is a Planck's Law Black Box. The trouble is that Black Boxes only do
interesting things far above room temperature. On the other side, Economists
are the only people who can grow things at 0 C (Central Bankers can grow things
at -273.15 kelvins, but they won't tell us how they do it). Farmers don't try
to grow wheat in Antarctica. This is not room temperature either. Why compute
there ? In addition, the Planck Law contains nothing divisible by lunar cycles
(not 7,14,21,28, only 2,3, and 5) ... so why use those except that the FFT
software you bought won't exclude them. I've suggested before that web data,
including opinions gleaned from Social Networking and Tweets could be modeled
much more simply if we
just bypassed period 15 (in the Planck Law) and took a virtual nap (to trigger
a phase change) every Sunday (going right to the Business Cycle - period 16,
still two weeks per fortnight).
Anyway, you've inspired me to do the FT in trigonometry, without recourse to
complex math[pdf only 1][zip spreadsheet + pdf 2]. Along the way, several
conceptual problems go away including logarithmic scales (circles I understand,
logs are a zero thing). I used a spreadsheet from NOAA to calculate the
opposite of Solar Noon (Local Midnight). Yes, I know this is theoretical
cheating with theories, but the results are simple - twisty little data objects
contaminated with Higgs Bosons and who knows what else are now two Gaussians,
one for this week, one for next. It is a tsunami dector of sorts - it lifts
from the middle and ignores rocking motion.
Have fun.
--Gannon
[1] http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/roadmap/phase.pdf
[2] http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/roadmap/phase.zip
- Original Message -
From: Michael Hausenblas michael.hausenb...@deri.org
To: W3C RDB2RDF public-rdb2rdf...@w3.org
Cc: public-lod Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org; SW-forum Semantic Web
community semantic-...@w3.org
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:38 AM
Subject: RDB2RDF Recommendations are published
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-r2rml-20120927/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-rdb-direct-mapping-20120927/
http://semanticweb.com/transforming-relational-data-to-rdf-r2rml-becomes-official-w3c-recommendation_b32395
Thank you very much, everyone involved! A big kudos to the wonderful Editors of
R2RML and DM, my co-chair and all the WG members, early ones and the ones who
pulled through to the very end!
Now, the real work starts: the success of a standard is, IMHO, measured by the
uptake. We have now a stable proposal on the table and need to convince
industry players and end-users alike that it is worth investing in this piece
of infrastructure.
Link long and prosper!
Cheers,
Michael
--
Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland, Europe
Tel.: +353 91 495730
http://mhausenblas.info/
