Re: New User Story: Validating and describing linked data portals

Following Peter's question in last meeting, I have edited the User story
adding a paragraph where I indicate the possible constraints that can be
represented in this example.

The result is:

https://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/wiki/User_Stories#S38_Describing_and_Validating_Linked_Data_portals

Regards, Jose Labra

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo <jelabra@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Although I know that it is a bit late, I would like to add a new user
> story that is based in a real life experience and that I think is not
> completely covered by the other user stories.
>
> The reason that I didn't add it before is that I could not be part of the
> WG until two weeks ago.
>
> The User Story could be:
>
> Describing and Validating Linked Data portals
> by Jose Labra
>
> A small company is specialized in the development of linked data portals.
> The contents of those portals are usually from statistical data that comes
> from Excel sheets and can easily be mapped to RDF Data Cube observations.
>
> The company needs a way to describe the model of the RDF graphs that need
> to be generated from the Excel sheets which will also be published as an
> SPARQL endpoint. Notice that those linked data portals could contain
> observations which will usually be instances of qb:Observation but can
> contain different properties.
>
> In this context, the company is looking for a solution that can be easily
> understood by the team of developers which are familiar work with OO
> programming languages, relational databases, XML technologies and some
> basic RDF knowledge, but they are not familiar with other semantic web
> technologies like SPARQL, OWL, etc.
>
> The company also wants some solution that can be published and understood
> by external semantic web developers so they can easily know how to query
> the SPARQL endpoint.
>
> There is also a need that the solution can be machine processable, so the
> contents of the linked data portal can automatically be validated.
>
> Finally, the company would like to compare the schemas employed so they
> can check which are the differences between the RDF nodes in those portals
> and they can even create new applications on top of the data aggregated by
> those portals.
>
> --------- end of User Story
>
> The user story is based on my own experience in the development of two
> real life linked data portals (the WebIndex and the LandPortal).
>
> In both cases, we employed ShEx documents to describe the RDF contents
> that had to be generated to the development team (which were no semantic
> web experts). The experience is also described in [1].
>
> [1] Validating and Describing Linked Data Portals using RDF Shape
> Expressions, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Harold Solbrig,
> 1st Workshop on Linked Data Quality, Sept. 2014, Leipzig, Germany
> PDF: http://labra.github.io/ShExcala/papers/ldq2014.pdf
> Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jelabra/linked-dataquality-2014
>
> --
> Best regards, Labra
>



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Saludos, Labra