Re: RDF Schema Creation Questions

I should have told you what kind of errors MKE might miss.
MKE does not check URI validity.
If you use "#" when you shouldn't, or vice versa, MKE won't notice.

Dick McCullough
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
http://rhm.cdepot.net/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@volcano.net>
To: "David Pratt" <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>; <semantic-web@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: RDF Schema Creation Questions


> I'll "validate" it for you.
> MKE does lots of diagnostics, and pretty prints your hierarchies.
> 
> One caveat: MKE is checking semantics, not syntax.
> Your ontology might pass MKE semantic check and fail RDF syntax check.
> But it should give you a lot more confidence in your ontology.
> 
> Dick McCullough
> knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
> knowledge haspart proposition list;
> http://rhm.cdepot.net/
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Pratt" <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>
> To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:13 AM
> Subject: RDF Schema Creation Questions
> 
> 
>> 
>> Hi.  I am writing an RDF schema but I have couple of questions. First, 
>> it validates on W3C's RDF validator but seems to die when loading as a 
>> new project in Protege so it has me concerned that there may be a 
>> problem that I am not aware with my schema or that Protege may be 
>> giving me grief. I am not sure which.  Can someone suggest an 
>> alternative tool I could consider using that can read and validate my 
>> index.rdf as a schema.
>> 
>> Protege puts all the classes and properties in alphabetical order also 
>> where I want to put things in a different order so it will go with the 
>> order the data will be entered for the most part. So I wrote a script 
>> in python to assemble the schema in the order I wanted after I 
>> understood the rdf structure a bit more.
>> 
>> My goal is for the schema to be used by normal rdf libraries (such as 
>> rdflib in python) so I have used owl sparingly.  I am using FOAF as a 
>> guide a bit this way since it is a well used schema.
>> 
>> Are there any ontology gurus out there that is willing to have a quick 
>> look at my schema to determine whether it has any obvious flaws can be 
>> identified? I am prepared to put it up on the web so it can be viewed.  
>> This would be very much appreciated as this is my first attempt and any 
>> comments or suggestions that could help make it better would be welcome.
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> David
>> 
>>

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