On 21/05/2013 16:13, Mark Fortner wrote:
> Hi Alan, I had a couple of ideas about how semantically tagged
> spreadsheets could work in a lab:
>
> - Imagine you could configure a spreadsheet service by simply
loading a
> sample spreadsheet that has been tagged, and selecting the tags
that you
> want.  The tags basically point to and describe the data in the
spreadsheet
> that will be parsed out.  It would be nice if an ontology also had
> validation criteria associated with it.  This would insure that
when the
> data is parsed, it is also verified prior to being used in the
workflow.
> So if your spreadsheet contains a Genpept ID and your workflow
requires a
> SwissProt ID, you would see an error.

I think the Rightfield library allows you to validate the spreadsheet.

This sounds like a combination of the spreadsheet service and a SPARQL
service. Effectively the spreadsheet is being treated as a simple triple
store over which you run a simple SPARQL query.

> - Beyond loading data into a workflow, it would also be nice to be
able
> to load data into a semantically tagged database or a triple-store.
> Imagine if you had tagged the columns in a database table
(something like
> D2R), and could load the data directly from the spreadsheet into the
> database.

Something like that must be happening inside the websites that have
Rightfield import.

> On a slightly different note, I was wondering if the current
> validation functionality in workflows, supports semantic validation
> of ports?  If
not,
> that would be a useful addition, especially if the default services
> were already semantically tagged.  This would make it possible to
> suggest mappings between ports in bulk, as opposed to the more
> time-consuming port-by-port mapping that you must do now.

As Donal said, this does require the ports to be typed, which is not
normally well done.

> Cheers,
>
> Mark

Alan



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