RDB2RDF Working Group Teleconference

Introduction

Introduction round

soeren: linked data background, Triplify, one of the DBpedia founders

cygri: DERI, main developer of D2RQ, interested in linked data, information integration

Souri and Seema: we are interested in RDB2RDF here at Oracle as we have a lot of relational data as you can guess

Orri: from OpenLink, long time doing DB federation, etc., main contributor to linked data community

<hhalpin> scribe: hhalpin

Orri is presenting next week

From OpenLink

Ahmed: from HP
... interests in integration
... works in RDF

Angela: new to this group
... postdoc at OKKAM project
... co-ordinating all the work for use-cases, interest in entity identifiers for linked data
... automatically extraxting entities from relational data
... automatically identify these entities.
... background in multimedia IR

Howard: from Metamotix
... been in semantic technology world for 8-9 years
... developed middleware integration platform.
... integrating structured and semi-structured data

Howard is presenting in early november.

Wolfgang: Working in Austria
... has but Eurostat as Linked Data
... did work in XG

Harry: W3C Fellow from Uni. of Edinburgh
... will be helping with contacts
... co-chairing with Ahmed.
... participated in XG

<mhausenblas> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdb2rdf-wg/2009Oct/0009.html

Nuno: Working in DERI
... hetereogenous sources, working on XSPARQL
... extending XQuery.

Ashok is on vacation.

Ivan: dialing in...

Juan: a Uni. Ph.D. student at University of Austin
... was part of XG
... creating Ultrawrap, RDB2RDF system
... takes advantage of existing infrastructure
... want to learn mappings
... uses data-mining, linked data for bioinformatics by end of year

Michael: Informal meeting at ISWC
... First face-to-face officially will be later

Juan: I'll be at ISWC.

Seema: From Oracle
... located in new hampshire
... working in semantic group

Marcelo: ... Marcelo Arenas, from catholic university of chile
... most in database theory
... we have a group that works in RDF
... have done semantics for SPARQL, adding navigation, dealing with RDFS and OWL
... we want to work on this problem.

<scribe> ACTION: hhalpin to re-send Marcelo invited expert form [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-5 - Re-send Marcelo invited expert form [on Harry Halpin - due 2009-10-22].

Li Ma: formerly of IBM, will be joining the group as Invited Expert.

scribe: participated in XG.
... worked for more 5 years
... was at IBM, now working on integrating databases
... have a paper at this year ISWC that describes our mapping approach

Schedule

Ahmed: spend a month and a half doing fact-finding on implementation work.
... next week is OpenLink and Orri
... will have anyone to post the links

<mhausenblas> see http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Initial_Round_of_Presentations

Ahmed: just send them to harry to post
... a week if not more the presentation
... we also have D2R, Metamotix on the queue.
... we can still fit them in.
... send them in.
... give a paragraph of what group has done

<metatomix> Also joined this group is Samir Batla. Batla has been leveraging ST for about 8-9 years in a solutions architect role - having been with Cerebra, Inc, Siderean Software and now Metatomix.

Ahmed: sometime in Nov we will be done with that piece
... we need to pin down some of our goals.
... listed some of these in the announcment
... six items:
... we hope to have this by march

Michael: let's have discussions on the mailing list

<mhausenblas> ... and use the Wiki to collect it

Michael: wiki is easier than mailing list
... for keeping track of some things.

Ahmed: How about things we end up not pursuing?

Michael: We will do a use-case and requirements.

Ahmed: any proposals for improving?

Michael: flag certain features
... to prioritize

<scribe> ACTION: mhausenb to add material to the Wiki [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action03]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-6 - Add material to the Wiki [on Michael Hausenblas - due 2009-10-22].

Juan: I'd like to present

don't worry, I can fix things!

Future Meetings

Juan: Do we want future meetings at this time?
... doesn't work for me too well.

Ahmed: Hard to make everyone happy
... Juan, can you switch schedules?

Juan: I can lose this time.

Ahmed: I hope we can keep this time.

<scribe> ACTION: hhalpin to send email out to europeans explaining daylight savings time. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action04]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-7 - Send email out to europeans explaining daylight savings time. [on Harry Halpin - due 2009-10-22].

Ahmed: let's send e-mails out about the time

Michael: do we want to say each other's names?

Ahmed: try to use first name
... I think we are done.
... Orri is next week!
... thanks everyone, triplify and D2RQ are afterwards.
... minutes will be made available.
... next meeting we will send tomorrow.
... Next time, to log into IRC beforehand.
... will start precisely 5 minutes later.

bye!

Meeting Adjourned

<marcelo> I lost the phone connection

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