Data v RDF a jejich zpracování v MS Excel

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) plays a key role in the effort to link data on the web. However, the advantage of linked data cannot be utilized without tools that can process them. This paper is devoted to processing of data in RDF in Microsoft (MS) Excel.This work has three goals. The first objective is to define data processing scenarios represented in RDF in MS Excel. This will be achieved by analyzing found MS Excel usage scenarios in order to discover the possibility of realizing such scenarios if the input data are in RDF data format. RDF usage scenarios will also be analyzed to find out if they can be realized in MS Excel. After that the two groups of results will be merged. Another objective is to analyze the possibilities of realization of defined scenarios in MS Excel. The analysis will begin by identifying functions needed for the realization of each identified scenario. The next step will be to find out, which of the needed functions are missing in Excel. The missing functionality will be noted and implemented in Excel’s extension in the development process. The last objective of this work is to design, implement and test an extension for MS Excel that enables the processing of data represented in RDF. Extension implementation for MS Excel will be achieved by author’s own development activities.One of the results of this work are the identified data processing scenarios in RDF in MS Excel. Another result of this work is an overview of Excel functionality needed to implement defined scenarios, where the functions required by the scenarios, but missing in Excel, are highlighted. The last and a particularly important result of this work is an extension for MS Excel, which offers to Excel’s users the missing functionality necessary for the realization of scenarios defined earlier in this work.