Weekly Summary 2021-06-18

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Hyperlinks as Powerful Data Source Names

It’s the year 2021, and enterprises and individuals alike are still asking the same fundamental questions:

1. What sits between me and my data?

2. Why is data interoperability still a problem?

3. Why are IT project failures increasing rather than decreasing?

4. Why does the cost of computing continue to rise relative to tangible value delivered?

5. Why are Data Privacy and Data Security problems getting worse?

All of these challenges are the consequence of not dealing with the important issue of Data Access & Integration across Data Silos.

Fundamentally, as covered in this new post by our CEO, Kingsley Idehen, this is about understanding the nature and important role of Data Source Names (DSNs) and how they relate to Data Access, Integration, Virtualization, and Management. Read…

Related:

• Here’s a post about generating a Knowledge Graph from the SemMed database, that manifests as a Semantic Web, courtesy of modern multi-model database management system capabilities built into our Virtuoso Platform.

• Here’s an OpenLink how-to, running through the steps of how to use Virtuoso to Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) data.

• Connecting Virtuoso to Elasticsearch, with Logstash and JDBC

• Being unable to interact with Structured Data from your browser — as you can with HTML — has been a problem since the Web explosion began.

• OpenLink Virtuoso 8.3.3322 release includes enhancements to TLS, OpenID Connect, and OAuth; various bug fixes; and sundry tweaks for better exposure of existing bleeding-edge functionality.

• The JDBC Drivers (a/k/a Connectors) for our Virtuoso have been updated as part of the recent maintenance release. These drivers can connect any JDBC app or service to the LOD Cloud Knowledge Graph for interactions using SQL (via SPASQL).

SeeAlso: OSDS-related Demonstrations

• OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) Browser Extension includes the ability to upload RDF from any Knowledge Graph deployed using HTML to any SPARQL endpoint or Solid pod that supports authenticated interactions via WebIDTLS, OpenID Connect, OAuth, etc.

OpenLink Structured Data Reveals:

• CocaCola using the “RDF deployed via HTML” method to publish its Product Knowledge Graph

• Financial Times cool use of JSON-LD deployed via HTML docs leveraging Schema.Org terms.

• BBC uses a News Article term from Schema.Org, schema:Reportage, to classify its news articles. Naturally, you can use this to look up similarly classified articles via the Knowledge Graph exposed by URIBurner.

• Spotify uses RDF deployed via HTML to expose its Knowledge Graph.

• Check out this iCal source regarding Euros2021 Soccer Tournament schedule!

• TikTok_us is leveraging RDF deployed using HTML to publish its Profile Knowledge Graph too!

• Backmarket also makes use of RDF deployed via HTML, to expose its refurbishment Products and Offers Knowledge Graph

• OSDS lets you interact with Structured Data from your browser — just as you would with HTML! Click for a nice collection of JSON docs that OSDS makes explorable!

• Virtuoso Use Case:

  • Always great to see Virtuoso being promoted! Here is an example: Connecting_EU listing OpenLink Virtuoso.
  • Interreg_IT_CH are committed to providing access to Linked Open Data, as is clear from their site.

Related Links

• Virtuoso product page is live on LinkedIn.
• 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
• Download Virtuoso for On-Premise installation and use
• OpenLink Virtuoso Pay-As-You-Go (PAGO) from the AWS Cloud
  • Virtuoso 8.3.3319 (PAGO) Edition for the AWS Cloud
  • Virtuoso 8.3.3319 (BYOL) Edition for the AWS Cloud
• OpenLink Virtuoso Pay-As-You-Go (PAGO) from the Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Virtuoso 8.3.3319 (PAGO Edition) for the Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Virtuoso 8.3.3319 (BYOL Edition) for the Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Detailed usage guides for Aure
    • Azure OpenLink Virtuoso Ubuntu PAGO VM — with FREE 30 Day Evaluation
    • Azure OpenLink Virtuoso Ubuntu BYOL VM
• Universal Data Access Drivers — Entry-level offers on high-performance drivers/providers/connectors for ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLE DB
  • Download Free Trials 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
• Free OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Vivaldi (with a build planned for Apple Safari)
  • Find out more on the Chrome Browser Extensions Store

Posts from Prior Weeks

• Weekly Summary 2021-06-11
• Weekly Summary 2021-06-04
• Weekly Summary 2021-05-28
• Weekly Summary 2021-05-23
• Weekly Summary 2021-05-14
• Weekly Summary 2021-05-07
• Archived listing of weekly summaries from January 2021 to April 2021