Update: TabLinker & UnTabLinker
From the post:
TabLinker, introduced in an earlier post, is a spreadsheet to RDF converter. It takes Excel/CSV files as input, and produces enriched RDF graphs with cell contents, properties and annotations using the DataCube and Open Annotation vocabularies.
TabLinker interprets spreadsheets based on hand-made markup using a small set of predefined styles (e.g. it needs to know what the header cells are). Work package 6 is currently investigating whether and how we can perform this step automatically.
Features:
- Raw, model-agnostic conversion from spreadsheets to RDF
- Interactive spreadsheet marking within Excel
- Automatic annotation recognition and export with OA
- Round-trip conversion: revive the original spreadsheet files from the produced RDF (UnTabLinker)
Even with conversion tools, the question has to be asked:
What was gained by the conversion? Yes, yes the data is now an RDF graph but what can I do now that I could not do before?
With the caveat that it has to be something I want to do.