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OpenLink Plugs the Gaps in the Structured Web
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has creator: Mike Bergman
maker: Mike Bergman
created: 2007-04-16T19:33:50Z
content: Virtuoso and Related Tools String Together a Surprisingly Complete Score NOTE: This is a lengthy post. One of my objectives in starting the comprehensive Sweet Tools listing of 500+ semantic Web and -related tools was to surface hidden gems deserving of more attention. Partially to that end I created this AI3 blog's Jewels and Doubloons award to recognize such treasures among the many offerings. The idea was and is that there is much of value out there; all we need to do is spend the time to find it. I am now pleased to help better expose one of those treasures -- in fact, a whole string of pearls -- from OpenLink Software. The semantic Web through its initial structured Web expression is not about to come -- it has arrived. Mark your calendar. And OpenLink's offerings are a key enabler of this milestone. Though having been in existence since 1992 as a provider of ODBC middleware and then virtual databases, since at least 2003 OpenLink has been active in the semantic Web space [1]. The company was an early supporter of open source beginning with iODBC in 1999. But OpenLink's decision to release its main product lines under dual-license open source in mid-2006 really marked a significant milestone for semantic Web toolsets. Though generally known mostly to the technology cognoscenti and innovators, these events now poise OpenLink for much higher visibility and prominence in the structured Web explosion now unfolding. OpenLink's current tools and technologies span the entire spectrum from RDF browsing and structure extraction to create RDF-enabled Web content, to format conversions and basic middleware operations, to ultimate data storage, query and management. (It is also important to emphasize that the company's offerings support virtual databases, procedure hosting, and general SQL and XML data systems that provide value independent of RDF or the semantic Web.) There are numerous alternatives in other semantic Web tools at specific spots across this spectrum, most …
encoded: Virtuoso and Related Tools String Together a Surprisingly Complete Score NOTE: This is a lengthy post. One of my objectives in starting the comprehensive Sweet Tools listing of 500+ semantic Web and -related tools was to surface hidden gems deserving of more attention. Partially to that end I created this AI3 blog’s Jewels and Doubloons award to recognize such treasures among the many offerings. The idea was and is that there is much of value out there; all we need to do is spend the time to find it. I am now pleased to help better expose one of those treasures — in fact, a whole string of pearls — from OpenLink Software. The semantic Web through its initial structured Web expression is not about to come — it has arrived. Mark your calendar. And OpenLink’s offerings are a key enabler of this milestone. Though having been in existence since 1992 as a provider of ODBC middleware and then virtual databases, since at least 2003 OpenLink has been active in the semantic Web space [1]. The company was an early supporter of open source beginning with iODBC in 1999. But OpenLink’s decision to release its main product lines under dual-license open source in mid-2006 really marked a significant milestone for semantic Web toolsets. Though generally known mostly to the technology cognoscenti and innovators, these events now poise OpenLink for much higher visibility and prominence in the structured Web explosion now unfolding. OpenLink’s current tools and technologies span the entire spectrum from RDF browsing and structure extraction to create RDF-enabled Web content, to format conversions and basic middleware operations, to ultimate data storage, query and management. (It is also important to emphasize that the company’s offerings support virtual databases, procedure hosting, and general SQL and XML data systems that provide value independent of RDF or the semantic Web.) There are numerous alternatives in other semantic Web tools at specific spots across this spectrum, most of …
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Open Source
topic: Semantic Web
topic: Semantic Web Tools
topic: Structured Web
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links to: Sweet Tools
links to: Jewels and Doubloons
links to: OpenLink Software
links to: ODBC
links to: 1
links to: iODBC
links to: RDF
links to: 2
links to: 3
links to: 4
links to: Universal Data Access Drivers
links to: OpenLink Virtuoso
links to: OpenLink Data Spaces
links to: SPARQL
links to: GData
links to: GRDDL
links to: microformats
links to: OpenSearch
links to: SQLX
links to: SQL
links to: their online demos
links to: http://
links to: ~kidehen
links to: isparql
links to: rich-Internet application
links to: UI
links to: Ajax
links to: SDK
links to: odbc-rails
links to: Ruby on Rail
links to: 5
links to: W3C's
links to: 6
links to: XML Schema
links to: N3
links to: Turtle
links to: RDFa
links to: eRDF
links to: WebCal
links to: Atom
links to: RSS
links to: OPML
links to: AtomOWL
links to: JSON
links to: XSLT
links to: DBpedia
links to: SIOC
links to: DOAP
links to: SKOS
links to: FOAF
links to: XBEL
links to: Dublin Core
links to: Google Base
links to: Flickr
links to: del.icio.us
links to: Ning
links to: Amazon
links to: eBay
links to: SPARUL
links to: XQuery

Mike Bergman
type: User

Mike Bergman
type: Person

Jewels and Doubloons
label: An AI3 Jewels & Doubloons Winner

OpenLink Data Spaces
label: OpenLink Data Space

microformats
label: Microformats

their online demos
label: online demos

RDF Browser

OAT (OpenLink Ajax Toolkit)

XPath

OLE-DB

XMLA

WebDAV

NNTP

SMTP

POP3

IMAP

SOAP

Web services

WSDL

BPEL

UDDI

Redland

Semantic Bank

Piggy Bank

RDF Net

Triplr

Jena

WordPress

Drupal

Zotero

CSL

COinS

Relax NG

phpBB

MediaWiki

XBRL

eCRM

Sponger

REST

7

RDFizers

OAT 1.2

OpenAjax Alliance

conformance test page

Ondrej Zara

Dojo datastore

Panelbar

Forms Designer

DB Designer
label: Database (DB) Designer

SQL QBE
label: SQL QBE (query-by-example)

iSPARQL
label: iSPARQL Query Builder

JSON

Cryptography

Statistics

AJAX

Ghost Drag

OS-style Windows

Rounded Corners

Mapping

Pivot

Scrollable Cursors

Data Modelling
label: Data Modeller

Bar Chart

Pie Chart
label: pie charting

Line Chart & Sparklines

Grid

Pivot Table
label: pivot table

Tree Control

Dock

Ticker

FishEye

WebDAV Browser

Timeline

RDF Graph

Variable Upload

Input Restriction

Dimmer

QuickEdit

Combo List

Combo Box

Combo Button

Slider

Date Picker

Color Picker

Enhanced Anchor

RSS Reader

OAT compatibility chart

IRI

Unicode

RAD

screencast
label: Screencast: Using the Forms Designer to Create Sophisticated Web 2.0 Mash-ups – Part I

screencast
label: Screencast: Using the Forms Designer to Create Sophisticated Web 2.0 Mash-ups – Part II

screencast
label: Screencast: Showing Ajax Database Connectivity and an SQL Query By Example

SVG

8

9

12

Virtuoso Conductor

Virtuoso history

basic product FAQ

online documentation

Implementing a SPARQL Compliant RDF Triple Store using a SQL-ORDBMS

10

RDF and SPARQL implementation

Jon Udell

significant performance improvements

Web 2.0

here for examples of the language

Blog

Wiki

Briefcase

Feed Aggregator

Discussion

Image Gallery

Polls

Bookmark Manager

Annotea

Email

Community

OpenID

Yadis

Moveable Type

MetaWeblog

Orri Erling

THALIA

LUBM

11

Sesame

Mulgara

Open Data

Linking Open Data

Freebase

moment is now

Kingsley Idehen

large percentage of such tools in the semantic Web space

Screencast: Building Pivot Tables using Ajax Database Connectivity

Screencast: Working with the OAT Pivot Table

Stefano Mazzocchi

Dave Beckett's

W3C

RDF and traditional SQL databases

large triple store scaling