[open-government] Extracting data from SAP (& other ERP systems) - advice welcome

Fri Jul 8 03:35:10 UTC 2011

Dick - this is excellent stuff.

I am very interested in taking you up on your offer to contribute your
experience. I'll contact you off of the list with a few thoughts.

Tim

2011/7/7 Dick Murray <dick.murray at unit4.com>

>  Hello.****
>
> I work for Unit4 Business Software (one of the big three ERP providers) who
> deploy Agresso Business World (ABW) and we have a tool (linked4) to produce
> open data. ****
>
> Currently it extracts payment data as RDF XML/N3/Turtle serialization for
> the purposes of meeting the £500 spend requirement. It adheres to the LeGSB
> payment ontology http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/payment#. ****
>
> In addition it uses Cube, SKOS, OPMV, VoiD to define datasets, analysis
> hierachy, provenance, and links.****
>
> I know the above because I created and maintain the tool... :-) It's based
> on Jena and is shortly to be released on SourceForge. We have some sample
> data at http://linked4.org along with a SPARQL endpoint. Standard stuff
> which has been done before but we're working with Epimorphics (the minds
> behind Jena) https://epimorphics.com to explore how people can use
> semantic data. My short view is creating semantic data is easy doing
> something with it is hard!****
>
> Rough numbers for sectors using Agresso Business World ERP in the UK are
> 100~ Local Government bodies (i.e. Councils) 300+ Furthe/Higher Education
> establishments and 100~ Not for Profit. Our tool is used to produce data at
> Windsor and Maidenhead, Redbridge, Gateshead (all LG's), Southampton
> University, Department for International Development (DfiD). If you have ABW
> you can easily produce open data and its one step to linked data.****
>
> I'd be happy to contribute my experiences.****
>
> Regards.****
>
> Dick Murray, Technology Specialist, UNIT4 Business Software****
>
> * *
>
> *From:* David Eaves <david at eaves.ca>
> *Date:* 7 July 2011 12:02:02 AM GMT+01:00
>
> *To:* open-government at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* *Re: [open-government] Extracting data from SAP (& other ERP
> systems) - advice welcome*****
>
> Just wanted to add a +1 from me.
>
> I also think there are people at SAP who are interested in this subject,
> I'd be happy to ask some of the contacts I know there if they have
> anyone/resources they could devote to this.
>
> cheers,
> dave
>
> On 11-07-05 11:11 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: ****
>
> An open source project for data excavation seems like an intriguing
> prospect. I'm surprised that it doesn't already exist. I know that it's
> fairly simple to export a table, however complex data leads to complex
> problems.****
>
> ** **
>
> I would really like to nudge people towards providing written content for
> the Open Data Manual, rather than events. Events should happen alongside
> written material, however we need to be able to reach people across the
> entire world. ****
>
> ** **
>
> I was thinking about short help material:****
>
> ** **
>
>  - how to export a table to CSV****
>
>  - how to generate a CSV file by joining and denormalising two tables****
>
> ** **
>
> Generating these snippets would be a few hundred words of content. They
> would provide great value to people looking at diving deeper, because they
> demonstrate that opening data doesn't need to include the chequebook.****
>
> ** **
>
> Does my thinking compute? ****
>
> ** **
>
> Tim McNamara****
>
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