Weekly summary 2020-05-08

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Summary of the week ending Friday, 2020-05-08

Why is the Virtuoso Sponger such an important part of Virtuoso?
It reduces Data Access, Integration, and Virtualization complexity down to a single hyperlink.

Virtuoso’s Sponger middleware module brings the magic of hyperlinks to your existing HTTP, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE-DB, and XMLA compliant applications and services that drive present and future digital transformation innovations aimed an enhancing agility without compromising performance or data privacy.

A recent post titled “What is the Virtuoso Sponger Middleware about, and why is it important?” provides additional details and live examples regarding this powerful solution for data access, integration, and virtualization.

SeeAlso

• Important note about our ODBC driver license for connecting Excel users on macOS to the LOD Cloud Knowledge Graph via URIBurner.

• Here is a how to guide covering installation & configuration of both Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) & our JDBC - ODBC Bridge Drivers, en route to making a connection from ODI to Data in an Excel spreadsheet

• Understanding the building blocks of life. Nature taught us the “deceptively simple” principle that underlies powerful design and loose-coupling.

• You can now build the latest Open Source edition of our VirtuosoRDBMS using OpenSSL 1.1.1c development libraries for #Ubuntu 19.10.

• There’s nothing complicated about the Web. It started life as a Global Document Network constructed from Hyperlinks that denote documents. Deploying RDF using Linked Data principles evolved it into a Data Network where a hyperlink denotes anything.

• The LOD Cloud Knowledge Graph is held together by Hyperlinks that name things.Courtesy of Linked Data principles, those name resolve to entity description docs. Thus, SPARQL really doesn’t determine the nature or state of the cloud.

• Here is a SPARQL generated index of Dashboards that visualize COVID-19 data from the Johns Hopkins Daily Reports collection, plus actual data from that authoritative source.
  You can look at the latest numbers or click on a link that identifies your preferred dashboard

• Updated document about Data Wrangling for progressively updating the LOD Cloud Knowledge Graph re fight against #COVID19.

• Question:
  Is there an index of COVID-19 projects that publish and loosely-couple Open Data with Data Visualization Dashboards?
  Answer: - You can create one using SPARQL.

• Our URIBurner Service (a live VirtuosoRDBMS instance) has provided a public SPARQL query service endpoint since 2007. In addition, you can also make your own instance on-premise or in the cloud.

• At this juncture, are we looking new additions for progressively enriching the LOD Cloud Knowledge Graph re COVID-19 and SARS CoV2 oriented LInked Data?

• Elevating popularity over facts" is part of the bigger problem.
  Social Media amplifies this most dangerous problem with regards to misinformation.

Product Related Links

• FREE 90 day LOD Connectivity License for ODBC and JDBC apps to the LOD Cloud Knowledge Graph.

• Exploit the powerful Enterprise Knowledge Graph technology provided by our Virtuoso Platform, by taking advantage of our current collection of Special Offers.

• OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) Browser Extension - find out more from the Chrome Browser Extensions Store!

• Download Virtuoso for On-Premise installation and use

• OpenLink Virtuoso Pay-As-You-Go (PAGO) from the AWS Cloud

• Current Entry-Level Virtuoso Offers

• Virtuoso ODBC and JDBC Drivers for accessing the Linked Open Data Knowledge Graph from existing ODBC-, JDBC-, ADO.NET, or OLE DB compliant Applications and Services

• Download Free Trial Editions of our Secure and High-Performance ODBC & JDBC Data Access Drivers (or Connectors) for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Informix, Ingres, and 3rd Party ODBC or JDBC Data Sources

Posts from Prior Weeks

• Weekly Summary 2020-05-01
• Weekly Summary 2020-04-25
• Weekly Summary 2020-04-17
• Weekly Summary 2020-04-10
• Weekly Summary 2020-04-03
• Weekly Summary 2020-03-27
• Weekly Summary 2020-03-20
• Weekly Summary 2020-03-13
• Weekly Summary 2020-03-06
• Weekly Summary 2020-02-28
• Weekly Summary 2020-02-21
• Weekly Summary 2020-02-07
• Weekly Summary 2020-01-31
• Weekly Summary 2020-01-24
• Weekly Summary 2020-01-17
• Weekly Summary 2020-01-10
• Weekly Summary 2020-01-03
• Archived listing of weekly summaries December to June, 2019