EXTENSIBLE DATA QUERY SCENARIO DEFINITION AND CONSUMPTION

摘要

Content providers define a set of scenarios that are addressed by their datasets. The scenarios include user-friendly, human-readable attributes such as a title, description, and visualization. The scenarios may also include a technical description that can be used to generate sample queries that can then be executed against the dataset. The technical description may be machine translated to arbitrary data querying protocols while maintaining the semantic meaning of the query. A user interface may be provided to allow users to intuitively generate the scenarios. In one embodiment, an extensible framework provides for the creation of protocol-specific translation plug-ins that are used to generate implementations of the scenario suitable for selected protocols. Known market-relevant translator plug-ins may also be implemented.

主权项

1. A computer system, comprising:
one or more processors; system memory; and one or more computer readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to cause the computer system to provide access to datasets, the computer-executable instructions including instructions that are executable to cause the computer system to perform at least the following:
identify a plurality of dataset descriptions that are provided by one or more dataset publishers, each dataset description describing a corresponding dataset provided by one of the one or more dataset publishers and including one or more sample queries that illustrate a syntax for querying the corresponding dataset, the one or more sample queries being in a first format;generate a first user interface that includes a listing of a plurality of datasets that are available for subscription by dataset subscriber computer systems, each listed dataset corresponding to one of the plurality of dataset descriptions;based at least on receiving a selection of a particular one of the plurality of listed datasets at the first user interface, generate a second user interface, the second user interface presenting the one or more sample queries from a particular dataset description that corresponds to the particular listed dataset, the second user interface also including a plurality of query translation user interface elements, each query translation user interface element being user-selectable to translate at least one of the one or more sample queries to a second format corresponding to the query translation user interface element;based on selection of one of the query translation user interface elements at the second user interface, translate the at least one of the one or more sample queries into the second format, wherein the translated format has a different syntax than the first format; andprovide the translated at least one of the one or more sample queries to the subscriber computer system.