- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:55:00 +0200
- To: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>, SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
- CC: Project SemanTic Interoperability To access Cultural Heritage <STITCH@NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Dear all, In the context of the STITCH and TELplus projects, we have developed a SKOS-based Vocabulary and Alignment service prototype, which is now available [1]. STITCH is one of the 10 projects funded under the CATCH programme [2], so we were able to include an interesting number of real world vocabularies and alignments between them (several library subject headings lists, in sum containing hundreds of thousands of concepts [3]). Technical details: - The core of the service is SOAP-based, containing functions that are similar to the SKOS-API [4] - An access layer is on top of the core service, offering REST-like access to vocabularies, and returning RDF/SKOS data and JSON output for concepts; there is also browser-based acccess to the services. - Vocabularies are stored in different RDF repositories, using redirection and skos:ConceptScheme individuals to deal with distributed data. - There is an interface to Sesame RDF repositories [5], but other interfaces are envisaged. - Fast access (including string autocompletion) using Sesame in-memory storage. - Support for all SKOS constructs, except those related to collections - API can manage concept alignments as sets of simple SKOS matching assertions (using skos:exactMatch, skos:broadMatch, etc) but also as set of mapping resources, following the more complex and extensible format defined for the Ontology Alignment API [6] Current limitations: - no inferencing with ingested data, but future work will address this (use of different, inference-enabled RDF store). Access: - 5 large scale vocabularies publicly accessible - for others, please contact us for authorization. The CATCH programme is entering its last year, but work on this prototype will continue in a follow-up programme, the CATCH Plus project. We'll continue informing the SKOS community on future developments! Best regards, Lourens van der Meij & Antoine Isaac & Claus Zinn [1] http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/repository [2] http://www.nwo.nl/catch [3] http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/repository/stats.html [4] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/thes/skosapi.html [5] http://openrdf.org [6] http://alignapi.gforge.inria.fr/format.html
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