Re: Conversion to RDF/Linked Data

I would also recommend @timrdf's csv2rdf4lod conversion automation,
the basis for our conversion at TWCRPI:

<https://github.com/timrdf/csv2rdf4lod-automation/wiki>

Given csv as a starting point, you should be doing conversions in
under 30mins ;)

BTW: We recently started a project, Elixir <http://bit.ly/wRjQTI>, to
create an easy-to-use Web portal front end for csv2rdf4lod. "Watch
this space..."

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Michael Hausenblas
<michael.hausenblas@deri.org> wrote:
>
> Mika,
>
>
>> Would somebody would guide me how can I convert such a record into
>> RDF/Linked data?
>
>
> There are two aspects to it: 1. the converter (for example, if your data
> source is a relational DB you might want to use an RDB2RDF mapper [1]), and
> 2. the schema level, for which I would (totally unbiased of course ;)
> suggest that you have a look at the work we're doing in the W3C Government
> Linked Data WG [2] ... still early days, though ;)
>
> Cheers,
> � � � �Michael
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/
> [2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/people/index.html
>
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> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
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> Ireland, Europe
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>
>
> On 14 Feb 2012, at 09:16, Mika Singh wrote:
>
>> I want to convert persons data to RDF/Linked Data.
>>
>> I have data like this:
>>
>> Person_ID
>> � � � �has_name � � � � � � � � � � � N
>> � � � �has_surname � � � � � � � � �S
>> � � � �has_hobbies � � � � � � � � � h1, h2, ..., hn
>> � � � �has_friends � � � � � � � � � � f1, f2, ..., fn
>> � � � �countries_visited � � � � � �c1, c2, ..., cn
>> � � � �date_of_birth � � � � � � � � �dob
>> � � � �height � � � � � � � � � � � � � � H �centimetres
>> � � � �weight � � � � � � � � � � � � � �W kgs
>> � � � �favourite_books � � � � � � �b1, b2, ..., bn
>> � � � �favourite_movies � � � � � �m1, m2, ..., mn
>>
>>
>> Would somebody would guide me how can I convert such a record into
>> RDF/Linked data?
>>
>>
>
>



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