Simple Sloppy Semantic Database

Simple Sloppy Semantic Database (S3DB) is a distributed infrastructure that relies on Semantic Web concepts for management of heterogeneous data. This distributed data management system was first proposed in 2006 [cite journal |author=Almeida JS, Chen C, Gorlitsky R, "et al" |title=Data integration gets 'Sloppy' |journal=Nat. Biotechnol. |volume=24 |issue=9 |pages=1070–1 |year=2006 |month=Sep |pmid=16964209 |doi=10.1038/nbt0906-1070 |url=}] , following the argumentation the previous year that omics data sets would be more easily managed if fragmented in RDF tipples. [cite journal |author=Wang X, Gorlitsky R, Almeida JS |title=From XML to RDF: how semantic web technologies will change the design of 'omic' standards |journal=Nat. Biotechnol. |volume=23 |issue=9 |pages=1099–103 |year=2005 |month=Sep |pmid=16151403 |doi=10.1038/nbt1139 |url=] That first version, 1.0, was focused on the support of an indexing engine for triple store management. The second version, made available in October 2007, added cross-referencing between triples in distinct S3DB deployments to support it as a distributed infrastructure. The third version was released in July 2008 and exposes its API through a specialized query language ( [http://sites.google.com/a/s3db.org/s3db/documentation/api-basics S3QL] ) accessible as a REST web service. An update of that release (vers 3.5) also includes a RESTfull SPARQL endpoint. This update introduced a self-update feature which replaces version numbers by date of update. The rationale, core data model, and usage are described and illustrated in a PLOS One manuscript published August 13, 2008 [cite journal |author=Deus FH, R Stanislaus1, DF Veiga, C Behrens, II Wistuba, JD Minna, HR Garner, SG Swisher, JA Roth, AM Correa, B Broom, K Coombes, A Chang, LH Vogel, JS Almeida |title=A Semantic Web management model for integrative biomedical informatics |journal=PLoS ONE |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=e2946 |year=2008 |month=Aug |pmid=18698353 |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=18698353] .

External links

Documentation and wiki are maintained at [http://www.s3db.org www.s3db.org] .This application is in publicly available with open source in PHP code at [http://code.google.com/p/s3db Google Code] .The use of S3DB's web-services formated as JSON is demonstrated in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZOLNT3_KbI youtube video] .

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