Re: First DCAT validator in the world

Hi Stan,

I doubt whether it's the first DCAT validator ever, but it certainly is 
a great contribution to the LOD community. Worth mentioning for the 
people on this list as well:

There is an npm (javascript/nodejs) library which you can customize with 
your own mandatory or recommended properties: 
https://www.npmjs.com/package/dcat-validator

Furthermore the source code of both the GUI as the npm package are 
available: https://github.com/oSoc15/dcat-validator and 
https://github.com/oSoc15/dcat-validator.js.

Next to seeing your contributions to the codebase, we'd love to see you 
use the dcat-validator as a specific data catalog validator for your 
country or field of expertise. Let us know what you think!

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 31-07-15 06:48, Stan Callewaert wrote:
>
> Hello DCAT-users,
>
> We are two students working on the DCAT-project for open Summer of 
> code 2015. The project is about creating the first DCAT validator, 
> which gives you feedback, telling you whether your DCAT feed is valid 
> or not. This project is organised by Open Knowledge Belgium and funded 
> by the Flemish government.
>
> The intention of the DCAT validator is to show the user errors or 
> wanings when respectively mandatory or required properties are 
> missing. The validation can easily be done by manually inserting the 
> feed, uploading a file or inserting a URI. Through the use of 
> different tabs you can change the way you insert your feed. As a user 
> you can also select and insert different formats like RDF:XML, JSON-LD 
> and Turtle. These formats are supported by the validator as well. The 
> validator will parse these formats and serialize them as Turtle so 
> they can be validated. Once you have selected your format you can add 
> your feed to the validator.
>
> After validation, your errors and warnings are presented. To find more 
> information about the error or warning you can expand the box which 
> will show you what properties are wrong or missing. Each property can 
> be expanded as well to show a property URI which will direct the user 
> to a page which contains more information about the property. As an 
> extra feature, when inserting a URI, the user can select the option 
> 'Automatic' instead of selecting a format. This option checks which 
> format your URI contains, automatically selects the right parser and 
> validates it. This way the user doesn't have to select a format when 
> he wants to validate by URI. Selecting a format and inserting your 
> DCAT feed is very easy and doesn't take long, depending on the size of 
> your feed.
>
> In short, this is the first DCAT validator which helps you as a user 
> to check if your DCAT feed is valid or not. It contains a few features 
> to help insert different formats and validate them. The errors and 
> warnings are shown and can be expanded for more information about its 
> properties.
>
> You can test the validator right here: www.dcat.be/validator 
> <http://www.dcat.be/validator>
>
> Kind regards
>
> The DCAT-validator team.
>
> Stan Callewaert
> e-mail: callewaert.stan@gmail.com <mailto:callewaert.stan@gmail.com>
> Sébastien Henau
> e-mail: sebastienhenau@hotmail.com <mailto:sebastienhenau@hotmail.com>
>

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