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

SPIN had the advantage that it supported SPARQL CONSTRUCT.
This is still hinted at in SHCAL but I haven’t found it implemented.

From: Chris Mungall <cjmungall@lbl.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, 5 November, 2019 12:25
To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Cc: Simon Steyskal <simon.steyskal@gmail.com>; Martin G. Skjæveland <martige@ifi.uio.no>; Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@atomgraph.com>; Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Subject: 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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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
>