- From: Cameron McCormack <cam-www-rdf-interest@aka.mcc.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:28:54 +1100
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi everyone. I've been lurking for a couple of months while my interest in RDF has been swelling. I have some RDF which describes TV shows and films I have seen and short reviews or thoughts about them. This is the file of reviews http://mcc.id.au/sw/reviews and this is the RDF schema for my review namespace http://mcc.id.au/sw/schema/reviews-1.0 . Firstly, some questions about how my RDF. 1. Is it OK that I have chosen URIs to identify my re:Movie and re:Episode objects? For example, for a movie I'll use the imdb.com URL for that movie, and for an episode I might use the geos.tv page. Or should I be using URIs that are under my control? What if, in the future, it is decided that a different URI is the accepted standard for identifying movies and TV episodes? 2. Am I right in thinking that the URIs I used to identify the re:Movies and re:Episodes do not necessarily have to have any information at them if dereferenced, and that it is a good idea to have the re:webpage properties as I do? Now, I'd like to make a web page that lists the shows I've seen in reverse chronological order. I found myself the Redland Perl modules and wrote a script which does that. You can see the script at http://mcc.id.au/temp/viewings.txt (the executable script is at http://mcc.id.au/cgi-bin/viewings.pl ). I find it terribly verbose to look up information. For example, if I have a show in $show and I want to find its title, I have to do my $titleStatement = new RDF::Redland::Statement($show, $DCTitle, undef); my $title = ($model->find_statements($titleStatement))[0]->object()->as_string(); Similarly for all the other properties I want to retrieve. I realise that if there was a query language here where the variables could be filled in with a single function call, then it would be a step in the right direction. The other problem though is that of generating the XHTML. I feel like there should be something akin to XSLT for generic XML data that can let me declaratively transform RDF data into XHTML. Does such a thing exist? Can anyone provide any other hints on how they have turned RDF data into XHTML? Thanks, Cameron -- Cameron McCormack | Web: http://mcc.id.au/ | ICQ: 26955922
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