{"id":60,"date":"2017-05-19T15:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juansequeda.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2017-05-19T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:14:33","slug":"why-doesnt-the-database-and-semantic-web-research-community-interact-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juansequeda.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/why-doesnt-the-database-and-semantic-web-research-community-interact-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn\u2019t the Database and Semantic Web research community interact more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Chicago to meet with colleagues from the Graph Query Language task force at the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) so we could have an impromptu face-to-face meeting (great progress towards our graph query language proposal!). They were in Chicago attending one of the main academic database conferences: SIGMOD\/PODS. I was able to take a quick look at papers, demos and tutorials.<\/p>\n<div>I left with the following question: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Why doesn\u2019t the Database and Semantic Web research community interact more?<\/strong><\/span><\/em>\u00a0The cross pollination, in my opinion, is minimal. It should be much bigger.\u00a0A couple of examples:<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Example 1 of overlapping <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Database?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Database<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SemanticWeb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SemanticWeb<\/a> research. Similar idea to Linked Data fragments cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olafhartig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@olafhartig<\/a> @RubenVerborgh <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V5iEL9Ctzs\">pic.twitter.com\/V5iEL9Ctzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juan Sequeda (@juansequeda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juansequeda\/status\/865338578146136064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Example 2 of overlapping <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Database?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Database<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SemanticWeb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SemanticWeb<\/a> research: Serving queries on compressed graphs similar to RDF HDT cc @AxelPolleres <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LY651mnZiw\">pic.twitter.com\/LY651mnZiw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juan Sequeda (@juansequeda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juansequeda\/status\/865338960133992449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another example of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Database?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Database<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SemanticWeb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SemanticWeb<\/a> overlap <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3NZSbxU7gj\">https:\/\/t.co\/3NZSbxU7gj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juan Sequeda (@juansequeda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juansequeda\/status\/865540551013130241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An example of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Database?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Database<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SemanicWeb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SemanicWeb<\/a> interaction <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZIyrHtwpmJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZIyrHtwpmJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juan Sequeda (@juansequeda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juansequeda\/status\/865564698946789377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you go to two conferences of your field in a year, consider swapping one conference to attend another conference in a different field. For example, for the Semantic Web community, if you attend ISWC and ESWC, consider swapping one of those to attend SIGMOD or VLDB. Same for the database community. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vldb.org\/2017\/\">VLDB 2017 will be in Munich\u00a0from August 28th to September 1, 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>I made a\u00a0list of papers from SIGMOD\/PODS (research papers, demos and tutorials) that I believe are relevant to the Semantic Web community. The <a href=\"http:\/\/sigmod2017.org\/sigmod-accepted-papers\/\">SIGMOD<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sigmod2017.org\/pods-accepted-papers\/\">PODS<\/a> papers are available online<\/div>\n<h2>PODS Papers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37868\">JSON: Data model, Query languages and Schema specification<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37869\">J-Logic: Logical Foundations for JSON Querying<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37863\">Dichotomies in Ontology-Mediated Querying with the Guarded Fragment<\/a>\u00a0(Best paper award)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37864\">The Complexity of Ontology-Based Data Access with OWL 2 QL and Bounded Treewidth Queries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37875\">Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Graphs: Combined Complexity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37887\">Stable Model Semantics for Tuple-Generating Dependencies Revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37888\">Schema Mappings for Data Graphs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37889\">Dependencies for Graphs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>SIGMOD Papers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37622\">Landmark Indexing for Evaluation of Label-Constrained Reachability Queries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37623\">Efficient Ad-Hoc Graph Inference and Matching in Biological Databases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37624\">DAG Reduction: Fast Answering Reachability Queries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37635\">Flexible and Feasible Support Measures for Mining Frequent Patterns in Large Labeled Graphs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37755\">Interactive Mapping Specification with Exemplar Tuples<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37756\">Foofah: Transforming Data By Example<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37769\">Extracting and Analyzing Hidden Graphs from Relational Databases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37760\">TrillionG: A Trillion-scale Synthetic Graph Generator using a Recursive Vector Model<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37773\">Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37774\">Waldo: An Adaptive Human Interface for Crowd Entity Resolution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37785\">ZipG: A Memory-efficient Graph Store for Interactive Queries<\/a>\u00a0(seems similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdfhdt.org\/\">RDF HDT<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37786\">All-in-One: Graph Processing in RDBMSs Revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37798\">Online Deduplication for Databases<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>SIGMOD Demos<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37703\">Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37717\">A Demonstration of Lusail: Querying Linked Data at Scale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37718\">Foofah: A Programming-By-Example System for Synthesizing Data Transformation Programs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37712\">In-Browser Interactive SQL Analytics with Afterburner<\/a>\u00a0(seems similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/linkeddatafragments.org\/\">Linked Data Fragments<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37725\">Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37726\">A Demo of the Data Civilizer System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37728\">Graph Data Mining with Arabesque<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37722\">DBridge: Translating Imperative Code to SQL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37724\">Safe Visual Data Exploration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37730\">Graphflow: An Active Graph Database<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37731\">Demonstration: MacroBase, A Fast Data Analysis Engine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>SIGMOD Tutorials<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37748\">Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37749\">Graph Exploration: From Users to Large Graphs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Get the Full Text from the ACM Digital Library\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/authorize?N37740\">Building Structured Databases of Factual Knowledge from Massive Text Corpora<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>P.S. 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