Project Plan

From LDTables Wiki

This is a general to-do list for the project, organized by deliverables. The overall goal is make Linked Data Tables be a practical and accepted way to share data on the web, rivaling RDF/XML, RDFa, SPARQL, CSV, XML, etc, etc., with hopefully most of the best features of each.

Contents 1 Community 2 Specification 3 Library of Formats 4 Library of Properties 5 Open Source Client Library 6 Gateway Site 7 Example Scenarios 7.1 Event Listing 7.2 Bike Shopping 7.3 Food Poisoning 8 Test Cases

[edit] Community

Okay, maybe this isn't a deliverable, but surely a community of developers and supporters is required to make this thing work. At some point, on-line support will be useful. A mailing list? Google group? Hashtag? Phone calls? irc channel?

A key question here is whether to piggyback on the semantic web / linked data communities, or start a new one, which could be more welcoming to folks who know nothing of RDF.

[edit] Specification

Start on the wiki. At some point, probably, move it along through W3C, if there's enough community support.

[edit] Library of Formats

Keep evolving http://www.ldtables.org/wiki/Category:Format

At some point, figure out which ones are required for "level 1", or something like that.

[edit] Library of Properties

Keep evolving http://www.ldtables.org/wiki/Category:Property

This is closely related to the RDF vocabulary ecosystem; it's unclear the best way to support the evolution of healthy system.

[edit] Open Source Client Library

python tablegate library

[edit] Gateway Site

http://www.tablegate.org

gateway to/from RDF/XML; maybe RDFa, SPARQL, ...

maybe gateway to/from CSV, ODBC, ...

[edit] Example Scenarios

[edit] Event Listing

Several people post tables on their blogs/sites with information about about upcoming and recent events. People can search on various criteria, perhaps bringing in various RDF databases.

Ties in to music reviews if it's a musical event.

[edit] Bike Shopping

Semantic craigslist. Can do kinds of searching craigslist doesn't yet support.

[edit] Food Poisoning

People post tables about getting sick and what/where they ate recently. A search pretty quickly shows the source. Works better if you can feed it directly from existing (private) databases.

[edit] Test Cases

• Design test case framework: tables->rdf and/or tables->tables
• Different layouts of the same data
• Tricky RDF data
• Different formats