Re: [ANN] OTTR: RDF/OWL modelling framework release, ISWC tutorial

AFAIK shape languages can't be used in a generative capacity. OTTR seems
more in the family of templating languages such as OPPL[1], ROBOT
templates[2], or Dead Simple OWL Design Paterns[3]

[1] https://github.com/owlcs/OPPL2
[2] http://robot.obolibrary.org/template R.C. Jackson, J.P. Balhoff, E.
Douglass, N.L. Harris, C.J. Mungall, and J.A. Overton. ROBOT: A tool for
automating ontology workflows. BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 20, July 2019.
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s12859-019-3002-3
[3] Dead Simple OWL Design Patterns David Osumi-Sutherland, Melanie
Courtot, James P. Balhoff and Christopher Mungall Journal of Biomedical
Semantics 2017 8:18 DOI:10.1186/s13326-017-0126-0
https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13326-017-0126-0



On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 1:45 AM Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:

>
> Or, for that matter, ShEx?
> https://shex.io/
>
> A good comparison could help clarify the entire design space.
>
> (academics looking for good semweb topics for students, please take note!)
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 05:59, Simon Steyskal <simon.steyskal@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> or SHACL?
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/#sparql-constraint-components
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl-af/
>>
>>
>>
>> - simon
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, 09:09 Martynas Jusevičius, <martynas@atomgraph.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> how does OTTR compare to SPIN templates?
>>> https://spinrdf.org/spin.html#spin-templates
>>>
>>>
>>> Martynas
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 5:02 AM Martin G. Skjæveland <martige@ifi.uio.no>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > Lutra, the open source reference implementation of OTTR templates, is
>>> > now available in release version 0.6.
>>> >
>>> > OTTR (Reasonable Ontology Templates) allows RDF/OWL modelling patterns
>>> > to be precisely defined and instantiated and support desirable
>>> modelling
>>> > principles such as
>>> >
>>> >   - layered abstractions
>>> >   - encapsulating complexity
>>> >   - uniform modelling
>>> >   - DRY don't repeat yourself
>>> >   - separation of design and content
>>> >
>>> > Lutra and OTTR supports many convenient language constructs:
>>> >   - nested template definitions
>>> >   - typing system adapted to RDF and OWL
>>> >   - optional arguments
>>> >   - list arguments
>>> > and support bulk loading data from spreadsheets and databases.
>>> >
>>> > To see and learn what this means, visit the project page:
>>> > http://ottr.xyz and the primer http://spec.ottr.xyz/pOTTR/0.1/
>>> > containing many interactive examples.
>>> >
>>> > If you are attending ISWC 2019, please come to our tutorial "Scalable
>>> > construction of sustainable knowledge bases" tomorrow, Saturday October
>>> > 26: http://ottr.xyz/event/2019-10-267-iswc/
>>> >
>>> > On behalf of the OTTR team,
>>> > Martin
>>> >
>>>
>>>