Re: Diff'ing RDF files

Dear Florian,



You may want to look into https://ebooks.iospress.nl/pdf/doi/10.3233/FAIA210375.



Kind regards,


Paweł Garbacz


On 17 Sep 2024, at 09:42, Florian Kleedorfer <florian.kleedorfer@austria.fm> wrote:

Hi Elisa,

Thanks for this pointer, that could be really relevant for us (and probably others, too). Looking at the end result of it here https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/ it's really quite an interesting system.

Is there a document explaining how all the EDMCouncil tools are stitched together to achieve this?

Best regards,
Florian

Am 2024-09-14 22:31, schrieb Elisa Kendall:
Hi all,
There is an open-source tool available from the EDM Council for
converting between RDF/XML, Turtle, and JSON-LD and for consistent
serialization of any of these representations of RDF and OWL. The
GitHub site for it is https://github.com/edmcouncil/rdf-toolkit. It is
actively maintained, freely available, and addresses a number of
issues mentioned on the thread, among other things. It also allows
users to turn any of its features on/off as desired. It runs on the
command line, or can be invoked automatically through GitHub commit
hooks, for example.
For collaborative work across development teams for large ontology
projects, consistent serialization for comparison purposes was one of
our first and relatively important issues. It enables visual
comparison in GitHub (and likely other source code management
systems), so that anyone reviewing the changes can see exactly what
changed, down to the single character level. There is also an
axiomatic diff tool available via the OBO Foundry that folks might
find useful, available at https://robot.obolibrary.org/.  I don't know
how well it works on RDF alone, mainly because I haven't attempted to
use it for that, but it works well as a companion tool to the RDF
Toolkit from the EDM Council as needed.
We also have a pipeline that looks for a myriad of issues in
ontologies, performs regression testing using examples and reference
data, and includes an html-based publication process that itself has a
comparison feature, enabling comparison of any pull request or prior
release with another version or with the latest version. The code for
this is also open source, available from the EDM Council GitHub
repository, though support is required for hosting and customization.
Best regards,
Elisa