Re: RDF Schema Creation Questions

I'll "validate" it for you.
MKE does lots of diagnostics, and pretty prints your hierarchies.

One caveat: MKE is checking semantics, not syntax.
Your ontology might pass MKE semantic check and fail RDF syntax check.
But it should give you a lot more confidence in your ontology.

Dick McCullough
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
http://rhm.cdepot.net/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Pratt" <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>
To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:13 AM
Subject: RDF Schema Creation Questions


> 
> Hi.  I am writing an RDF schema but I have couple of questions. First, 
> it validates on W3C's RDF validator but seems to die when loading as a 
> new project in Protege so it has me concerned that there may be a 
> problem that I am not aware with my schema or that Protege may be 
> giving me grief. I am not sure which.  Can someone suggest an 
> alternative tool I could consider using that can read and validate my 
> index.rdf as a schema.
> 
> Protege puts all the classes and properties in alphabetical order also 
> where I want to put things in a different order so it will go with the 
> order the data will be entered for the most part. So I wrote a script 
> in python to assemble the schema in the order I wanted after I 
> understood the rdf structure a bit more.
> 
> My goal is for the schema to be used by normal rdf libraries (such as 
> rdflib in python) so I have used owl sparingly.  I am using FOAF as a 
> guide a bit this way since it is a well used schema.
> 
> Are there any ontology gurus out there that is willing to have a quick 
> look at my schema to determine whether it has any obvious flaws can be 
> identified? I am prepared to put it up on the web so it can be viewed.  
> This would be very much appreciated as this is my first attempt and any 
> comments or suggestions that could help make it better would be welcome.
> 
> Many thanks,
> David
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:58:25 UTC