- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:50:53 -0400
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- CC: Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, Aldo Bucchi <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com>, Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, Anja Jentzsch <anja@anjeve.de>
Hugh Glaser wrote: > On 12/08/2009 08:45, "Jun Zhao" <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > >> Hi Hugh, >> >> Thanks for championing voiD here:) >> >> I would love to avoid the manual editing too. As Leigh said, editing esw >> wiki is not the best experience you could have. >> >> Do you have a voiD description creator/editor you can share with the >> community? >> > I am really sorry to report that we don't. > We have php code that generates it from a CRS (Co-ref Service) (written by > Richard Cyganiak and Ian Millard), but it wouldn't just move somewhere else > as it stands. > I know Ian is working on improving it to deal with internal sameAs better. > Of course anyone is welcome to have that if it helps. > > Aldo, could you generate voiD from an appropriate Google spreadsheet? > > Hugh, If the RDFizer takes the form of a Virtuoso Sponger Cartridge, you get VoiD gratis :-) Kingsley > Cheers > Hugh > >> Hugh Glaser wrote: >> >>> Please no! Not another manual entry system. >>> I had already decided I just haven't got the time to manually maintain this >>> constantly changing set of numbers, so would not be responding to the request >>> to update. >>> (In fact, the number of different places that a good LD citizen has to put >>> their data into the esw wiki is really rather high.) >>> Last time Anja was kind enough to put a lot of effort into processing the >>> graphviz for us to generate the numbers, but this is not the way to do it. >>> In our case, we have 39 different stores, with linkages between them and to >>> others outside. >>> There are therefore 504 numbers to represent the linkage, although they don't >>> all meet a threshold. >>> For details of the linkage in rkbexplorer see pictures at >>> http://www.rkbexplorer.com/linkage/ or query http://void.rkbexplorer.com/ . >>> And these figures are constantly changing, as the system identifies more - >>> there can be more than 1000 a day. >>> >>> If any more work is to be put into generating this picture, it really should >>> be from voiD descriptions, which we already make available for all our >>> datasets. >>> And for those who want to do it by hand, a simple system to allow them to >>> specify the linkage using voiD would get the entry into a format for the voiD >>> processor to use (I'm happy to host the data if need be). >>> Or Aldo's system could generate its RDF using the voiD ontology, thus >>> providing the manual entry system? >>> >>> I know we have been here before, and almost got to the voiD processor thing:- >>> please can we try again? >>> >> Sure, this will be an interesting experiment. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jun >> >> > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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