Application-specific RDF validation [was Re: RDF Profiles Ontology]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 23:34 +0200, Jiří Procházka wrote:
> http://buzzword.org.uk/2009/rdf-profiles/spec
> by Toby Inkster
> 
> Certainly an interesting and useful thing, though quite troublesome to
> model. The draft is quite original, but I think making it a bit similar
> to existing ontologies could be more practical, saving time later when
> mapping the ontologies.
> Checking a profile is basically evaluating a boolean value based on some
> conditions made on selection of triples which match certain pattern. I
> think SPARQL (aggregates like COUNT) and SPIN (constrains) are very
> close to this. Also I wonder if there is nothing to take from OWL
> regarding constrains...


This use case -- the need to validate sets of RDF triples in an
application-specific way -- is described in this paper on RDF and SOA
from the 2007 W3C Web of Services workshop:
http://www.dbooth.org/2007/rdf-and-soa/rdf-and-soa-paper.htm#data-validation

SPARQL certainly seems like a natural fit, since it is an established
standard, though something that is more specifically tailored to
application-specific validation may be more concise or convenient if it
becomes established.


-- 
David Booth, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic (contractor)

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Received on Monday, 5 October 2009 18:14:02 UTC