@prefix rdfs: . @prefix ns1: . ns1:this rdfs:label "Kingsley Idehen" . @prefix rdf: . @prefix ns3: . @prefix foaf: . ns3:this rdf:type foaf:Person . @prefix sioct: . rdf:type sioct:Weblog . @prefix atom: . rdf:type atom:Feed ; rdfs:label "kidehen@openlinksw.com's BLOG [127] description" . rdf:type sioct:BlogPost , atom:Entry . @prefix dc: . dc:title "Business Value of Linked Data (Enterprise Angle)? " ; foaf:maker ns3:this ; rdfs:label "Business Value of Linked Data (Enterprise Angle)? " . @prefix dt: . @prefix dcterms: . dcterms:created "2008-09-11T18:59:24Z"^^dt:dateTime ; dcterms:modified "2008-09-11T15:52:48.000050-04:00"^^dt:dateTime . @prefix sioc: . sioc:id "59d496e30925d8f6ef2703cf4179ea83" ; sioc:link ; sioc:content "All enterprises run IS/MIS/EIS systems that are supposed to enable optimized exploitation of data, information, and knowledge. Unfortunately, applications, services (SOAP or REST), database engines, middleware, operating systems, programming languages, development frameworks, network protocols, network topologies, or some other piece of infrastructure, eventually lay claim (possessively) to the data.\n\nCourtesy of Linked Data, we are now able to extend the "document to document" linking mechanism of the Web (Hypertext Linking) to more granular "entity to entity" level linking. And in doing so, we have a layer of abstraction that in one swoop alleviates all of the infrastructure oriented data access impediments of yore. I know this sounds simplistic, but be rest assured, imbibing Linked Data's value proposition is really just that simple, once you engage solutions (e.g. Virtuoso) that enable you to deploy Linked Data across your enterprise.\n\nExample: \nMicrosoft ACCESS, SQL Server, and Virtuoso all use the Northwind SQL DB Schema as the basis of the demonstration database shipped with each DBMS product. This schema is comprised of common IS/MIS entities that include: Customers, Contacts, Orders, Products, Employees etc.\n\nWhat we all really want to do as data, information, and knowledge consumers and/or dispatchers, is be no more than a single "mouse click" away from relevant data/information/knowledge data access and/or exploration. Even better (but not always so obvious), we also want anyone in our network (company, division, department, cube-cluster) to inherit these data access efficiencies.\n\nIn this example, the Web Page about the Customer "ALKI" provides me with a myriad of exploration and data access paths e.g., when I click on the foaf:primarytopic property value link.\n\nThis simple example, via a single Web Page, should put to rest any doubts about the utility of Linked Data. Of course this is an old demo, but this time around the UI is minimalist as my prior attempts skipped a few steps i.e., starting from within a Linked Data explorer/browser.\n\nImportant note: I haven't exported SQL into an RDF data warehouse, I am converting the SQL into RDF Linked Data on the fly which has two fundamental benefits:\n\nNo vulnerability to changes in the source DBMS\nSuperior performance over the RDF warehouse since the source schema is SQL based and I can leverage the optimization of the underlying SQL engine when translating between SPARQL and SQL.\n\n\n\nEnjoy!\nRelated\n\n\n Requirements for Relational to RDF Mapping\n\n\n Handling Graph Transitivity in a SQL/RDF Hybrid Engine\n\n\n How Virtuoso handles the Web Aspects of Linked Data Queries.\n\n" ; atom:title "Business Value of Linked Data (Enterprise Angle)? " . @prefix ns11: . sioc:has_creator ns11:this ; sioc:has_container ; sioc:links_to ns1:this , . @prefix dbpedia: . sioc:links_to dbpedia:Linked_Data , dbpedia:SPARQL , , dbpedia:SQL , , , dbpedia:Knowledge , , , dbpedia:Entity . @prefix ns13: . sioc:links_to ns13:ALFKI , dbpedia:Information , dbpedia:Friend_of_a_friend ; atom:source ; atom:author ns3:this ; atom:published "2008-09-11T18:59:24Z" ; atom:updated "2008-09-11T19:52:48Z" . @prefix opl: . opl:isDescribedUsing . ns11:this rdf:type sioc:User . @prefix rdf: . @prefix ns1: . @prefix foaf: . ns1:this rdf:type foaf:Person ; foaf:made . @prefix atom: . rdf:type atom:Feed . @prefix sioct: . rdf:type sioct:Weblog . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "kidehen@openlinksw.com's BLOG [127] description" . @prefix sioc: . sioc:container_of ; atom:entry ; atom:contains . @prefix ns7: . ns7:this rdf:type sioc:User ; sioc:creator_of .