Re: A VoCamp Galway 2008 success story

Francois,

Thanks for your feedback and the question. Though I'm not sure what you 
technically mean with 'my:links is a named graph' :) I think the answer 
is simple: indeed we decided to model datasets and linksets 
independently from each other. The following example from the (not yet 
publicly available) voiD guide may illustrate this:

Let's assume the two well-known linked datasets DBpedia and DBLP:

:DBpedia void:containsLinks :DBpedia2DBLP  .

:DBpedia2DBLP rdf:type void:Linkset ;
               void:target :DBLP .

So, it is a linking *from* DBpedia *to* DBLP; as RDF is a direct graph, 
this makes sense quite a lot (the subject 'sits' in DBpedia, the object 
in DBLP).

IIRC, we had your option in mind as well [1] but decided to go for the 
current modeling due to the above reasons. Actually, as I think, the two 
modelings are equivalent, just with reversed directions:

YOUR model (if I got it right):

  :dataset1 <- void:target - :links - void:target - > :dataset2

voiD model:

  :dataset1 - void:containsLinks -> :links - void:target - > :dataset2


Cheers,
	Michael

[1] http://community.linkeddata.org/MediaWiki/index.php?MetaLOD#Discussion

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François Scharffe wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> thank you for the link ;)
> It seems that the current voiD spec supposes that the linkset (set of 
> interlinks) is supposed to be included in one of the two interlinked 
> datasets. I think it would make sense for the linkset to be considered 
> independently from the two interlinked datasets, something like this:
> 
> my:links a void:Linkset ;
>          void:target <dataset1> ;
>          void:target <dataset2> ;
> 
> my:links is a named graph containing the set of owl:same_as links. This 
> would avoiD to bind a dataset with a set of links.
> 
> Cheers,
> François
> 
> Michael Hausenblas wrote:
>>
>> Just to let you know. One of the outcomes of the recent VoCamps [1] 
>> was that we have agreed on a final layout for voiD (Vocabulary of 
>> Interlinked Datasets). It is now available at [2] - please note that 
>> the actual (final) namespace will be 'http://rdfs.org/ns/void#' ... 
>> can't fix everything within two days, right :)
>>
>> A more detailed user guide to follow soon!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Michael
>>
>> PS: A big thanks to the Neologism (http://neologism.deri.ie/) people 
>> for creating such an awesome tool and John Breslin for the great 
>> support re rdfs.org!
>>
>> [1] http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampGalway2008#Outcomes
>> [2] http://rdfs.org/ns/neologism/void
>>
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>> Dr. Michael Hausenblas
>> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
>> National University of Ireland, Lower Dangan,
>> Galway, Ireland
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>>
>>
>>
>

Received on Saturday, 29 November 2008 12:06:23 UTC