Re: OntoLex validation

Hi Christian,

yes, I think this is an interesting challenge and we should certainly
discuss this at the Leipzig meeting.

Regards,
John

On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 13:25, Christian Chiarcos <
chiarcos@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> in todays morphology telco, we once again stumbled upon the question how
> to validate OntoLex data (also cf. https://book.validatingrdf.com).
>
> There are basically four possibilities, but some won't work with certain
> vocabulary elements in OntoLex
>
> - RDFS validation: Possible only if we do not use disjunctive domains
> such
> as in in http://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/decomp#constituent
> - OWL validation: Should work with rdf:Containers (rdf:_1, as mentioned
> as
> a possibility for decomp), but not with rdf:Collections (rdf:List,
> ()-notation in Turtle). What bothers me a bit is that we model closed
> (non-extensible) collections in decomp, but use a vocabulary that is
> designed to model open (extensible) collections.
> - SHACL: Not tested yet. Does anyone have experiences?
> - special-purpose validator: I remember something like this used to exist
> for Monnet, but this is ancient history ...
>
> Basically, there are three questions here:
> 1) Did anyone look into OWL validation for OntoLex-lemon so far?
> 2) Would anyone be interested in looking into SHACL or alternative
> validation strategies and/or provide an OntoLex validator?
> 3) Shall we return to RDFS validation and eliminate disjunctions (by
> introducing abstract classes)?
>
> Option 1) is probably the most elementary choice, but because of the open
> world assumption, this is a weak validation only, and a complex one.
> Option 2) is a lot of work.
> Option 3) is a backward-compatible extension, but requires the
> introduction of novel vocabulary into OntoLex core.
>
> Maybe something to be discussed in Leipzig.
>
> Best,
> Christian
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