Re: Triple Checker

Thanks Christopher.  "not entirely useless" are all the initial conditions one needs to solve a differential equation by the Monte Carlo Differentiation Method I invented two days ago.  In retrospect, this inverse of Monte Carlo Integration leads me to believe there is a resonant point ("not entirely making stuff up" <-> "not entirely useless").  Where classic engineering has points of failure, linked data has points of non-reproducibility, a "not entirely useless" concept in relation to The Scientific Method.

I am going to work in some "utterly opaque notation"(*) so important people will understand.


--Gannon

* see also: Talking to Myself (Private Communication)


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 From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "<public-lod@w3.org>" <public-lod@w3.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 8:33 AM
Subject: Triple Checker
 
Hi, thanks for everyone's sense of humour about uri4uri.net -- I had fun writing it. I'm now working on taking out the silly bits and leaving it up indefinitely as I think it's not entirely useless. Suggestions welcome.

Now it's past April 1st, I'd like to show off a few more useful tools I've built:

http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/checker/
This catches common mistakes people (me, for example) make when producing RDF: it checks for minor typos in common namespaces, and for terms & classes which have a namespace which resolves to a schema/ontology but the term in question isn't there. It's saved me loads of silly mistakes. It's on github if people want to suggest improvements.

http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browser/
I wrote this RDF browser as a lightweight alternative to the existing ones. It's aimed at developers wanting to see inside an RDF file with a bit less headache than raw RDF (or RDFa, etc). Again, suggestions welcome and you can run a local copy if you want, once again all the code is on github.

http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/geo2kml/
Looks for lat/long data in RDF and makes a Google Earth (or maps) KML file. Handy for spotting obvious mistakes in your data.

http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/stuff2rdf/
This is a bit of a personal swiss army knife if I need to quickly munge RDF between the common formats.

Share and enjoy!

-- Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg

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