Re: RDF Schema Creation Questions

Hi Danny. Many thanks for your reply.  I was not aware of some of the 
other tools, particularly the Altova tool.  I have used xml spy before 
and it is very nice software.  I will likely try their product first 
but will also look for a newer Protege. I don't think this one I am 
using is any more than a couple of months old or so.

You're right about the W3C validator. It is really going to parse the 
triples and tell me whether I have fatal syntax problems I believe.

I think first step is to to ensure it fits with rdf schema rules. I am 
hopeful that Altova tool will help me and rise to the challenge.  I am 
very happy for offers I have received to look at the schema.  If anyone 
else is interested in looking at it, more feedback is better than less 
so if interested please contact me.

I will take the first steps to see that it is valid etc before putting 
it up so the version that goes up is my best effort. Then I will get 
back to those that have offered to look at it to provide helpful 
comments. I am very grateful to the list for this sort of feedback.

Regards,
David

On Thursday, October 6, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:

>
> On 10/6/05, David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Heh, I grumbled to the protege-owl folks a couple of weeks ago about
> Protege crashing when it loaded a certain file (the SKOS Core schema).
> I've been assurred that they have been putting a lot of effort into
> stability (and I posted my apology for grumbling too hard last night).
> If there's a newer build of Protege available, it might be worth a
> try.
>
> If you post your schema on the Web I'm sure someone will be willing to
> check it out.
>
> The W3C validator is very handy, but there's only so far the notion of
> validity can go in this context. The Pellet reasoner can do
> consistency checking:
>
> http://www.mindswap.org/2003/pellet/demo.shtml
>
> Other editing tools I'm aware of are RDFAuthor:
>
> http://rdfweb.org/people/damian/RDFAuthor/
>
> SWOOP :
>
> http://www.mindswap.org/2004/SWOOP/
>
> Altova SemanticWorks (pay-for, but there's a 30 day demo):
>
> http://www.altova.com/products_semanticworks.html
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
> --
>
> http://dannyayers.com
>

Received on Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:38:59 UTC