Re: Describing networks using RDF

MKE can do this (click on link below my name),
but the current graphical interface is a real kludge.

MKE will copy the hierarchy to a file system,
edit the file system with Microsoft Windows Explorer,
and copy the file system back to the hierarchy.

Dick McCullough
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
http://rhm.cdepot.net/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeroen van der Ham" <vdham@science.uva.nl>
To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:36 AM
Subject: Describing networks using RDF


> 
> Hi,
> 
> During the past half year or so I and some people of my group have been
> working on using RDF to describe computer networks. Some more
> information about this work (in progress!) can be found on my homepage:
> <http://www.science.uva.nl/~vdham/research/ndl/>.
> 
> Now I'm interested in feedback from the semantic web group, people who
> have experience creating ontologies and perhaps also from people who are
> doing about the same thing.
> Is anyone aware of any other projects using RDF to describe computer
> networks (I googled, but haven't found much)?
> 
> Also the work I'm doing is being picked up by the network management
> communities, but before we really want to release this to the public we
> want to have some tools to easily edit the descriptions and update them
> with new information. I know that there are some (graphical) tools to
> edit RDF files. But these all show the complete RDF file and for most
> usage it is enough to have some abstracted view of the graph and zoom in
> when necessary. Does anyone know of any editors that are able to do this?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Jeroen van der Ham.
> 
> 
> 
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