Re: A small beginning towards building a conversion specification

Kirk Hess has started up a discussion this within the wiki:

https://www.w3.org/community/bibframe2schema/wiki/Talk:Conversion_Specification

I have added my thoughts.

~Richard
Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
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On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 12:20, Richard Wallis <
richard.wallis@dataliberate.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Firstly my apologies for the lack of recent progress within the group.
> Hopefully we can start to move things forward a little faster from now on.
>
> To that end I have put some work in on the bibframe2schema.org site - the
> certificate that supports https has been updated and is now part of an
> auto-renew cycle.
>
> I have also put some work in on the W3C Group site
> <https://www.w3.org/community/bibframe2schema/>, specifically in the Wiki
> <https://www.w3.org/community/bibframe2schema/wiki/Main_Page> area.
> Apart from a few minor tweaks, I have started on a Conversion
> Specification
> <https://www.w3.org/community/bibframe2schema/wiki/Conversion_Specification>
> document as it is not ideal to have to infer specifications from SPARQL
> query examples.
>
> My intention is to create a specification for each of the main
> Bibframe entity types, indicating how Schema Types and properties should be
> produced from interpreting the pattern of BF properties and relationships.
>
> This I have discovered is not a simple task - without things starting to
> look like SPARQL queries!
>
> I have therefore picked a single Bibframe type (bf:Instance) and produced
> a trial specification, to hopefully start a discussion as to the
> appropriateness of the form I have chosen.
>
> What do others think? Am I missing a standard approach to this that
> produces understandable results?
>
> I deliberately chose bf:Instance for this example as it has some
> particular challenges where Schema property values need to be derived from
> properties of an instance's related Work.
>
> Please contribute.  When we have consensus on the way to define the
> specification, I will proceed to define examples for other types such as
> Work, Organization, Person, Item, Event, Place, etc.
>
> Regards,
>   Richard
>
>
>
> Richard Wallis
> Founder, Data Liberate
> http://dataliberate.com
> Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
> Twitter: @rjw
>
>