Re: Best practices for versioning and documenting ontologies for Sem Web

I've looked at Vocol, and it's too complex to install as a server, the mere
length of the install pages is frightening. But it certainly has good tools.

But the idea of using pre-commit git hooks is good.

I thought of a simple pre-commit that would use *rapper* to validate the
Turtle syntax, and translate to N-Triples format, plus possibly applying
the sort command to prevent re-ordering of the triples by tools like
Protégé .
Protégé and certainly other tools can read the N-Triples format, after all
it's Turtle also.

Using sorted N-Triples format, which is kind of canonical format, aims at
avoiding non-significant differences in git versioning. But I admit that it
does not work if tools renames blank nodes.







2017-01-31 8:47 GMT+01:00 Niklas Petersen <petersen@cs.uni-bonn.de>:

> +1 on any git-based tool recommendation + N3/Turtle
>
> On documentation & publishing:
>
> Depending on your team, there are very likely knowledge engineers, domain
> experts (and probably users) with some knowledge in modeling things and
> those completely without. I would recommend in the beginning to take the
> time to identify in which way different potential contributers might be
> able to engage in the development process and with the ontology itself.
> This includes presenting different tools to edit/visualize the ontology and
> explain them thoroughly the Turtle syntax if that is your weapon of choice.
> To keep the threshold as low as possible, I would further recommend to you
> tools which offer a web interface. The goal needs to be to provide anyone
> with a mild interest in your ontology an easy way to engage with it. Good
> luck!
>
> On 30.01.2017 15:08, Simon Spero wrote:
>
> (metaphysics should be avoided
> as much as possible, but it's important to be able to recognize it so you
> know what to run away from)
>
> Out of curiosity, could you give an example?
>
> Niklas
>
>


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