ISSUE-34: R2RML terminology: addressing vendor-specific names like "owner"

R2RML terminology: addressing vendor-specific names like "owner"

State:

CLOSED

Product:

R2RML

Raised by:

Sören Auer

Opened on:

2011-03-22

Description:

While reading the current R2RML draft I often encounter sentences like
"table or view name plus its owner name" (e.g. first sentence of 3.3
[1]). This sounds a little odd to me (and maybe Oracle vendor specific).
Certain terms in R2RML refer to vendor specific terminology. This includes for example "owner". I have the impression what is meant here is catalog and/or database schema name [2].
We should add an SQL terminology section to Section "1.1 Terminology" and refer to the SQL standard and for example state "by table or view name we always mean the complete name required for the DBMS to identify the object. For some DBMS this includes a catalog/schema/owner (Oracle) or database (MySQL) prefix."

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-r2rml-20101028/r2
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_object

Related Actions Items:

• ACTION-144 on Richard Cyganiak to Implement ISSUE-34 resolution: drop rr:tableOwner, and instead state that rr:tableName MAY be qualified to include a schema name and a catalog name - due 2011-07-26, closed

Related emails:

1. Re: More edits on the R2RML spec, incl. ISSUE-47 (from ashok.malhotra@oracle.com on 2011-07-22)
2. More edits on the R2RML spec, incl. ISSUE-47 (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2011-07-22)
3. Minutes of 2011-07-19 telecon (from michael.hausenblas@deri.org on 2011-07-19)
4. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from tthibodeau@openlinksw.com on 2011-07-19)
5. Re: RDB2RDF WG agenda for 2011-07-19 meeting 1600 UTC (from juanfederico@gmail.com on 2011-07-19)
6. Re: RDB2RDF WG agenda for 2011-07-19 meeting 1600 UTC (from seema.sundara@oracle.com on 2011-07-19)
7. Re: RDB2RDF WG agenda for 2011-07-19 meeting 1600 UTC (from marcelo.arenas1@gmail.com on 2011-07-19)
8. RDB2RDF WG agenda for 2011-07-19 meeting 1600 UTC (from michael.hausenblas@deri.org on 2011-07-19)
9. regrets for 19-JUL-2011 meeting (from souripriya.das@oracle.com on 2011-07-17)
10. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from nuno.lopes@deri.org on 2011-07-14)
11. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from juanfederico@gmail.com on 2011-07-13)
12. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from michael.hausenblas@deri.org on 2011-07-13)
13. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from boris.villazon@deri.org on 2011-07-12)
14. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from eric@w3.org on 2011-07-12)
15. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from kidehen@openlinksw.com on 2011-07-12)
16. Re: ISSUE-34, tableName (from dmcneil@revelytix.com on 2011-07-12)
17. ISSUE-34, tableName (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2011-07-12)
18. Re: Agenda for July 12 Telcon (from michael.hausenblas@deri.org on 2011-07-12)
19. Re: Agenda for July 12 Telcon (from juanfederico@gmail.com on 2011-07-12)
20. Re: Agenda for July 12 Telcon (from privera.salas@gmail.com on 2011-07-12)
21. Re: Agenda for July 12 Telcon (from marcelo.arenas1@gmail.com on 2011-07-12)
22. Agenda for July 12 Telcon (from ashok.malhotra@oracle.com on 2011-07-09)
23. Re: Propose to close ISSUE-34 by dropping rr:tableOwner (from juanfederico@gmail.com on 2011-06-30)
24. Re: Propose to close ISSUE-34 by dropping rr:tableOwner (from boris.villazon@deri.org on 2011-06-30)
25. Re: Propose to close ISSUE-34 by dropping rr:tableOwner (from dmcneil@revelytix.com on 2011-06-30)
26. Propose to close ISSUE-34 by dropping rr:tableOwner (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2011-06-30)
27. Issues mentioned in R2RML draft (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2011-03-22)
28. ISSUE-34: R2RML terminology: addressing vendor-specific names like 'owner' [R2RML] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-03-22)

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