[dais-wg] Announcement of the DAIS RDF(S) Access development initiative

[Norman Paton]

Miguel, et al.

This looks to me like a helpful document for motivating the development 
of a WS-DAI extension for access to RDF data stores and associated 
schema information.  I will post  you some fine grained comments at the 
level of typos, etc.  Slightly more substantial comments:

- In Figure 2, It isn't clear why the Semantic Matchmaker, which is 
shown as taking as input a SPARQL Query, doesn't implement the 
SPARQLAccess portType.

- Section 3.2.3 doesn't seem to fit too well, as it describes previous 
work using OGSA-DAI, but unlike the previous subsections doesn't 
indicate how the proposed WS-DAI RDF(S) Realisation would be used.

Dave agreed to update the group charter to reflect this new activity, 
and I think the document provides all the information required to allow 
this to happen.

Regards, Norman


Miguel Esteban Gutiérrez wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
>         We would like to draw your attention to a new effort that is
> taking place within the DAIS working group to create a standard for
> access to RDF data resources as a DAIS realization.
>
> We have already had a BOF at GGF16 and GGF17 and held our first
> face-to-face meeting June 2006 in Edinburgh. This work is currently
> being lead by AIST and UPM and as a first output of our collaborative
> work we have created an informational document that motivates and
> describes the work that we are going to do, see:
>
> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc13710?nav=1
>
> Please have a look and provide us with any feedback or comments by either
> posting to the dais mailing list or using the tracker set up at the DAIS
> for site:
>
> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.dais-wg/tracker.dais_rdf_s
>
> We would like to submit this document as a GGF informational document for
> GGF18.
>
> Our initial plan is to focus on RDF(S) and we propose to produce the
> following specs:
>
>     o Query language based interface using SPARQL.
>     o Ontology access interface  based on RDF(S)
>
> If you would be interested in participating in this activity, please
> let us know. We are hoping to collect some willing contributors. Once
> we get sufficient interest we will set up telcons to discuss this
> work.
>
> In the meantime we will have a session at GGF18 in Washington DC
> where we will outline this work. The name of the session is
> "Access Service for RDF Data Resources", and will be held on Wednesday,
> September 13, from 1:30pm to 3:00pm, in room 158A-B.
>
> If you will not be going to GGF18 then don't worry you can still
> participate by reading our documents and commenting, attending telcons
> or future face to face meetings. Meanwhile please do read our document
> and let us know what you think. Thank you,
>
>         Miguel Esteban Gutiérrez, Ontology Engineering Group (UPM), 
> mesteban at fi.upm.es
>         Asun Gómez-Pérez, Ontology Engineering Group (UPM), asun at fi.upm.es
>         Isao Kojima, AIST, kojima at ni.aist.go.jp
>         Said Mirza, AIST, mirza at ni.aist.go.jp
>
> -- 
> 	/Miguel Esteban Gutiérrez/
> *Ontology Engineering Group*
> Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
> Facultad de Informática
> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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> Phone: +34 91 336 36 70 - Fax: +34 91 352 48 19
>