Charles Eames hat (2005) einen interessanten Artikel zum Thema „Adding Semantics to Excel with Microformats and GRDDL“ geschrieben (es funktioniert wirklich, ich hab’s ausprobiert).

Seine Idee:

Unfortunately, spreadsheets are a mish-mash of structured but meaningless data; there’s no easy way to tell which columns contain data and which ones are headers. To make them useful, we have to add some reusable, stable semantics to them.

Eigentlich hatte aber ein Anderer schon zwei Jahre vorher einen ähnlichen Gedanken… Dan Connolly (eine Semantic-Web Ikone) schrieb 2003 schon über „Grokking Triples from Spreadsheets„.

Sean notes that there are lots of triples in spreadsheets. Yup. After my Aug 2003 trip to Montreal for Extreme, I used gnumeric as an RDF authoring tool to collect all the gas receipts and such; then the Makefile has this stanza to convert it to RDF […]

Großartig 🙂

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