Triplify: Expose Your Information as RDF

Yet another way into automating the process of semantic annotation of your web content. As many times mentioned, one of the biggest obstacles for the Semantic Web to become fully implemented, is that people (web masters) are forced to manually annotate every resource they have on the Web in order (future) applications to use that information. The trouble is the term future applications. There is no killer semantic web application yet, partly because there is no semantic data available through the Web.

So here comes Triplify into play. Triplify is a framework that works over your SQL database and the web master selects the columns that are of interest when constructing the triples, and it automatically generates RDF using the pattern specified by the owner.

This is an illustration on how Triplify  works:

Disadvantages

Besides the nice approach of generating RDF triples, some serious shortcomings are hidden under the hood. 

First, it has performance issues and is aimed for using on small to medium web sites. 

Secondly, it is still implemented only in PHP. Semantic Web goes far beyond technology limitations. However, more developers are needed for implementations on other platforms.

Conclusion 

 As far I explored, it seems fairly easy to integrate, and it might be very helpful for exporting your data in RDF. But one question still remains.

What to do with RDF ? How does one utilize RDF to make semantic killer application?