- From: David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca>
- Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:53:15 -0300
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Hi Danny. This is a great link and very helpful for where I am at my stage. Many thanks for the perspective offered here on validation. Regards, David On Thursday, October 6, 2005, at 01:45 PM, Danny Ayers wrote: > I *knew* there was a must-link-to thing on the topic of RDF & > validation, it just clicked what it was - danbri's "Missing isn't > broken": > > http://rdfweb.org/mt/foaflog/archives/2003/07/24/12.22.48/ > > > On 10/6/05, David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca> wrote: >> 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 >>> >> > > > -- > > http://dannyayers.com >
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