- From: Richard H. McCullough <rhm@volcano.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:25:27 -0700
- To: "David Pratt" <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>, <semantic-web@w3.org>
I should have told you what kind of errors MKE might miss. MKE does not check URI validity. If you use "#" when you shouldn't, or vice versa, MKE won't notice. Dick McCullough knowledge := man do identify od existent done; knowledge haspart proposition list; http://rhm.cdepot.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard H. McCullough" <rhm@volcano.net> To: "David Pratt" <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>; <semantic-web@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:57 AM Subject: 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 >> >>
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