SemTech2010questions

Draft questions for speakers (taken from discussion minutes on June 16).

• What are the use-cases of RDB2RDF (question to panelists so they can review/announce use-case document?)

• What current approaches are out there? (Each panellist should introduce their current approach)

• Why should a standard make a difference?

• What is the schedule for the first release of a draft standard?

• What open questions are there in the standard? (very general, some examples below)

• In particular, would you prefer a more XML or turtle-like serialization?

• Should we have one or many serializations?

• Should SPARQL Constructs, SQL Views, RIF or some other approach be used to transform relational data to RDF?

• If SQL, how can we determine what precisely does it mean to use "SQL" - do we mean a subset? How can we precisely identify that subset?

• If SPARQL Construct is used, then is that expressive enough? What about SPARQL 1.1?

• Is the community familiar enough with RIF for it to be used? Should it be used explicitly in the syntax, or just kept to the semantics?

• What should be used as the basics of the semantics? RIF? Datalog? Does it matter?

• What is the best way to deal with extensibility, particularly for vendor specific data-types and extensions to SQL?