Re: Catalog software to maintain/display OWL vocabularies...

Thanks Niklas for pointing out these resources.

As someone involved in more or less all of them (beside Jeni's blog,
obviously ;) I'd like to use this opportunity to give some updates and
clarifications:

> I think the form of such a repository could be exposed as a
> void:Dataset [1], with its dynamics (updates) expressed using e.g.
> Atom feeds. See dady [2] (DatasetDynamics) for building upon voiD [3]
> to express such data syndication/synchronization
> (notification/update).

Indeed. For a start I'd suggest people look at the voiD overview [1] and the
voiD guide [2]. Further we are currently working on voiD 2.0 [3], which we
intent to submit to W3C as a member submission.

Regarding dataset dynamics, we are working on a vocabulary [4] and a first
demo is available [5] as well. This is rather premature work, though a
couple of people seem to be interested and have gathered in a respective
working group [6].

> For vocabulary publishing tools, I suggest examining e.g. Neologism
> [4]. It's built on Drupal, seems to use clean, reliable and
> *non-tool-dependent* URI:s. A prime example of it in action is voiD
> itself (with representations available as HTML, RDF, N3 and a
> diagram).

Right. We are about to release a new version of Neologism very soon and
happy to keep you posted.

Cheers,
      Michael

[1] http://semanticweb.org/wiki/VoiD
[2] http://rdfs.org/ns/void-guide
[3] http://code.google.com/p/void-impl/issues/list?q=milestone%3ARelease2.0
[4] http://purl.org/NET/dady
[5] http://code.google.com/p/dady/wiki/Demos
[6] http://groups.google.com/group/dataset-dynamics

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> From: Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:39:14 +0100
> To: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
> Cc: eGov IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Catalog software to maintain/display OWL vocabularies...
> Resent-From: <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:40:09 +0000
> 
> Peter, all!
> 
> I think the form of such a repository could be exposed as a
> void:Dataset [1], with its dynamics (updates) expressed using e.g.
> Atom feeds. See dady [2] (DatasetDynamics) for building upon voiD [3]
> to express such data syndication/synchronization
> (notification/update).
> 
> For vocabulary publishing tools, I suggest examining e.g. Neologism
> [4]. It's built on Drupal, seems to use clean, reliable and
> *non-tool-dependent* URI:s. A prime example of it in action is voiD
> itself (with representations available as HTML, RDF, N3 and a
> diagram).
> 
> I'm not sure about where it stands regarding describing its content
> with voiD, dady, Atom etc; but it seems reasonable it may progress
> along that path. And hopefully more tools will appear using the same
> approach. (The principles themselves should of course be clear and
> non-tool-specific; i.e. Cool URIs, conneg/REST, dataset descriptions
> and dynamics, feeds.)
> 
> Jeni Tennison's series of posts about Linked Data [5] about are also
> an excellent source of practical experience on these matters.
> 
> Best regards,
> Niklas Lindström
> 
> [1]: http://rdfs.org/ns/void#Dataset
> [2]: http://esw.w3.org/topic/DatasetDynamics
> [3]: http://rdfs.org/ns/void
> [4]: http://neologism.deri.ie/
> [5]: http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/taxonomy/term/46
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> We are investigating cost efficient ways of maintaining a catalog of
>> vocabularies created by various agencies. As data outlives
>> organizations I would like to bea able to find an OWL model years
>> after the agency that created it was shut down.
>> 
>> In addition, many of the websites that our agencies have today are
>> poor att maintaining URL:s over time so a common repository would make
>> life easier for the people involved in creating and maintaining
>> vocabularies.
>> 
>> I guess I would like to have a model.gov.se website that presented
>> vocabularies in a consistent way for both humans and machines while at
>> the same time enabling discoverability of all the vocabularies that
>> the public sector creates.
>> 
>> Is anyone here aware if such software exists? Has anyone seen similar
>> catalogs on the web?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Peter Krantz
>> Stockholm, Sweden
>> 
>> 
>

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