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<ericP> huh
<ericP> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdb2rdf-wg/2009Nov/0008 suggests that it starts at 16:00Z
<ericP> MacTed, when do you expect this telecon to start?
<ericP> ahh, i see 1200 Eastern
<mhausenblas> heya
<mhausenblas> good to see you around ericP
<mhausenblas> yes, it is 17:00 UTC
<ericP> gonna be 5 mins late, i think
<mhausenblas> no worries ;)
<ericP> i look forward to geeking with y'all!
<mhausenblas> yeah! and continue our great ISWC08 talk (and dance ;)
<jsequeda> to bad both of you guys missed out on the ISWC09 talks and dance!
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<trackbot> Date: 10 November 2009
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<mhausenblas> scribenick: mhausenblas
minutes from last meeting
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdb2rdf-wg/2009Nov/0007.html
<trackbot> Meeting: RDB2RDF Working Group Teleconference
<trackbot> Date: 10 November 2009
<scribe> scribenick: hhalpin
ashok: SQL is a very
language
... so what I wanted to at least think about
... to map all of SQL, whether we could do just a subset.
... for example, we could map only SQL92
Ahmed: Do you mean certain SQL facilitites or data-types
Ashok: I am talking about certain extensions like facilities around data-types
Ahmed: Do you see us doing mapping SQL to SPARQL?
Ashok: We'll see that the low-level details like SPARQL to SQL mappings are places where different companies can compete.
Ahmed: relational algebra is SQL
operations, not data-types
... including projections, joins
Ashok: Yes, I agree.
Ahmed: Then how is SQL to SPARQL not included?
Ashok: What I was thinking about
was mapping a SPARQL class to a SQL query
... that would then have join etc.
Souri: I agree with Ashok, and we
have to keep it simple, and maybe avoid complex types, focus on
scalar types for now.
... But all SQL operations are important so we need to go
through SQL
... Like Triplify in using SQL
... so we can have RDF mapping where the fundamental aspects
are the return of SELECT, not just say functions etc.
... to summarize, we need to keep it simple, so let's support
SQL operations in the mapping language.
Ahmed: In XG, we did not discuss
SQL to SPARQL mappings
... so doing this adds a new commitment of time
... but I do not say that mapping to SQL operations is
something we can live without
... but we do have a specific timeframe
... and we have to watch it.
+1 on watching timeframe
Dan: looking for clarification of
language
... just want to remind me about DDL, DML, and DQL.
Data Definition Language, Data Manipulation Language, Data Query Language.
So which are we talking about?
Souri: We need to make sure every row of the view can be understood
<jsequeda> hhalpin: ok
Souri: so we can design queries
based on the relational schema without looking at the
queries.
... so we'll need only a portion likely
Ahmed: So there's a difference between mapping the database schema and actually translating SQL to SPARQL (and vice versa)
<Zakim> ericP, you wanted to say that i think e.g. HCLS expects of us
mhausenblas: ericP is W3C staff on this group
EricP: I'm EricP, I'm on HCLS
interest group
... where I do mostly query mapping and modelling
... the world I've seen would like enough of the query
mappig
... so they can do straight mappings, even a subset of
SPARQL
... if we define the semantics of the answers, but not the
algorithm
... then we can lean on the semantics of SQL and SPARQL
... so all we apply is the semantics of the mappig
<mhausenblas> ACTION: mhausenblas to create an issue regarding SQL/SPARQL of our WG [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/10-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot> Sorry, couldn't find user - mhausenblas
<mhausenblas> ACTION: mhausenb to create an issue regarding SQL/SPARQL of our WG [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/10-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action02]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-13 - Create an issue regarding SQL/SPARQL of our WG [on Michael Hausenblas - due 2009-11-17].
mhausenblas: I hesistate to wait
too long
... to start working on the use-cases
<mhausenblas> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/rdb2rdf/XGR-rdb2rdf-20090126/
Ahmed: Not sure if we should
commit.
... the deadline may be a problem
<mhausenblas> Propose to accept minutes from last meeting http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdb2rdf-wg/2009Nov/0007.html minus the issues discussed today
Ahmed: proposed to accept minutes
from meeting.
... Any outstanding actions?
Action doe.
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Action done
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<mhausenblas> ACTION-12?
<trackbot> ACTION-12 -- Harry Halpin to inform li ma -- due 2009-11-05 -- OPEN
<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/actions/12
did inform li ma.
<mhausenblas> close ACTION-12
<trackbot> ACTION-12 Inform li ma closed
Ahmed: We want to make sure we have representation from OWL and RIF, and any other WGs?
mhausenblas: not as far as I know.
<mhausenblas> ACTION: mhausenb to create Wiki page for liaisons with OWL, RIF, etc. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/10-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action03]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-14 - Create Wiki page for liaisons with OWL, RIF, etc. [on Michael Hausenblas - due 2009-11-17].
mhausenblas: can post any more liasons on the wiki.
<mhausenblas> http://richard.cyganiak.de/2009/11/d2rq-rdb2rdf-wg-slides.pdf
cygri: want to talk about the
project, the mapping language, and the requirements of
D2RQ.
... a database to rdf mapping application
... input is any JBDC driver and a number of output
interfaces
... linked data server
... get a big rdf dump from database
... that one can then load into a triple store
... very easy
... can get it working in a few minutes
... do not modify database
... we assume we have read-only access
... we assume we cannot even create a view
... not adding keys to database.
... started by Chris Bizer in 2004
... now maintained by Chris Becker
... informed by D2R Map
... now legacy
... fairly active mailing list, 20 messages per month
approx.
... Hannover Uni. uses it to host DBLP
... downloads took off when we offered the server
... not just the Jena-based API
... so that we could install and run something.
... details about architecture
... a normal database
... provided by a mapping file
... has two main ways of interfacing
... jena interface
... ability to create rdf dumps
... on top of that there is a server
... basically a java web application
... linked data interface
... for exploring and the like.
... and a SPARQL endpoint.
... we normally use one of the query interfaces to a virtual
rdf graph
... we do not materialize unless explciltly asked.
... on top of data
... we can allow different methods of accessing.
... ranging in complexity, all on top of virtual rdf
graph.
... people tend to actually use SPARQL endpoints or create RDF
dumps
... data integration scenarios.
... we would need a federated SPARQL engine.
... so people often just dump and put into a triple-store
... but people run it in batch every night or weekend.
... mapping language
... n3 based syntax
... real world schemas are very messy
... so we don't know if we have views
... we made the mapping language very expressive
... we have a script that autogenerates a mapping
... just uses autogenerated properties and classes
... but is a starting poit for cusotmizing
... to provide exactly the output they want.
mapping process is quite important
1. define DB
2. define entiites
3. add properties (connect person to photo)
4. Link entities (here's the database, here's the JBDC deadline)
See examples in slides
slide 17: we have a classmpa that defines a URI pattern that defines a number of entities defined in the same way
cygri: the URI pattern
... can instatiate actual URIs from data from the
database
... so in general, throughout the next slide
I think 17 to 18
ashok: you are using a column name, could you use a function?
cygri: you cannot in our URI
patterns, you can only use column names
... in other contexts, you could do the same thing that
contains some value from the database
... you can concatenate a certain string with output of some
function, so you can get the same effect.
... via using an arbitrary SQL expressio
... back to slide 18
... so we have conditions that the mapping applies whenever a
certain SQL condition applies, such as a user not being
deleted.
... instead of a URI pattern
... we use bnode ID column
... we also have on slide 21 some syntactic sugar
... for declaring types of rdf entities
... slide 22 we show we can use property bridges
... to attach properties to the entities
... we again use a URI pattern to generating specific types. We
can generate data-type literals,etc., but a different set of
URIs patterns
... on slide 24, I am showing that we can use the SQL
expression to concat a hash
... we can explain that a certain photo made by a user on slide
25
... the slide is correct, we are attaching a property to a
photo
... we are attaching a particular URI to a particular
perso
... we want to make sure the photo has the right user ID as
part of their URI.
<ericP> [[
<ericP> map:People a d2rq:ClassMap;
<ericP> d2rq:uriPattern “http://.../people/@@User.ID@@”
<ericP> ]]
<ericP> [[
rcygri: slide 27, instead of repeating URI patter
<ericP> map:photo a d2rq:PropertyBridge; d2rq:belongsToClassMap map:Photos; d2rq:property foaf:made; d2rq:join “User.ID = Photo.UserID”; d2rq:refersToClassMap map:People .
<ericP> ]]
rcygri: we simply map the URIs
pattern
... so by refering to the class maps
... we will not expose a triple
... we allow self-joins re "alias" costruct
Ahmed: You are primarily mapping the schema
rcygri: we do have a SPARQL
engine
... that can try to do the translations to a virtual
graph
... Turtle-syntax not a w3c standard
... we used Turtle because it is fairly human writable
... SPARQL was not around
<ericP> the DAWG (SPARQL) Working Group felt free to use turtle for examples in the query specification and the test cases
rcygri: you need to take the SQL
apart, and we would like to avoid doing that
... differences between database vendors
... would like to discuss SQL query to RDF template
... to RDF graph + SQL fragment issue
... we would like to support and have frequet requests for
character separated lists and dynamic properties
<ericP> Dynamic properties seems like a way to express <item8> :nonSale $price vs. <item8> :sale $price
rcygri: a transformation table
would also be useful to have proper URIs based on
type-codes.
... the main issue is table and column names
... general functions beyond the standards
... would be a great thing to support
... on implementation side we have a lot to support.
... but some things vary between databases
... no dynamic mapping file
mhausenblas: Could we continue this discussion mailing list?
<jsequeda> hhalpin: we are still on the phone
Meeting Adjourned.
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