Method and apparatus for the conversion and display of data

A system for representing data in a computer network to facilitate access thereto via at least one user interface, the system comprising:

• at least one processing device;
• at least one display operatively connected to the at least one processing device;
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• at least one machine-readable storage device, operatively connected to the at least one processing device, having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to:
• generate a user interface including an applications definition panel, an objects definition panel and a properties definition panel, the user interface enabling selections which cause linkage of an application displayed in the applications definition panel, an object data structure displayed in the objects definition panel and a property displayed in the properties definition panel;
• based on the selections via the user interface, generate configuration tables representative of applications, each application comprising one or more object data structures, wherein each of the one or more object data structures is linked to at least one staging database and comprises at least one property defining available data for the object data structure in the at least one staging database;
• from time to time and for at least one object data structure, obtain data from the at least one staging database according to the configuration tables representative of the application;
• translate the data from the at least one staging database into a semantic data format to provide semantic data;
• store the semantic data in a semantic database;
• obtain, from the semantic database, requested semantic data corresponding to instances of at least a portion of the one or more object data structures for an application;
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• provide, to the at least one display, the at least one user interface based on the requested semantic data.

At least one machine-readable storage device having stored thereon instructions for representing data in a computer network to facilitate access thereto via at least one user interface, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to:

• generate a user interface including an applications definition panel, an objects definition panel and a properties definition panel, the user interface enabling selections which cause linkage of an application displayed in the applications definition panel, an object data structure displayed in the objects definition panel and a property displayed in the properties definition panel;
• based on the selections via the user interface, generate configuration tables representative of applications, each application comprising one or more object data structures, wherein each of the one or more object data structures is linked to at least one staging database and comprises at least one property defining available data for the object data structure in the at least one staging database;
• from time to time and for at least one object data structure, obtain data from the at least one staging database according to the configuration tables representative of the application;
• translate the data from the at least one staging database into a semantic data format to provide semantic data;
• store the semantic data in a semantic database;
• obtain, from the semantic database, requested semantic data corresponding to instances of at least a portion of the one or more object data structures for an application;
• and
• provide, to at least one display, the at least one user interface based on the requested semantic data.