- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:05:53 -0500 (EST)
- To: Pete Johnston <p.johnston@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Yep, jibberjim had a tool that would let you search for random properties and so on that had been scraped by his stuff (which was essentially foafnaut). Hopefully he'll give a URI if the thing is still functional, but yes - it showed what happens when people write code by hand because they don't have tools that can go and find a schema and automatically encode stuff correctly :-0 cheers chaals On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Pete Johnston wrote: > >Charles said: > >> I suspect you haven't a hope of ever getting all the schemas. >> One interesting approach would be to collect RDF content and >> collect up all the terms used, seeing if they are defined >> anywhere (like a traditional search engine does). > >I have a vague memory of seeing an experiment like this conducted by one >of the FOAF aggregator services not too long ago. Well, not going as far >as looking up definitions, but listing/counting occurrences of >property/class URIs in the data. I can't recall where it was just now >but maybe one of the FOAF folk here might be able to point to something. > >It was quite an eye-opener to see the large number of "variant" URIs >deployed for common terms (either because specs had changed over time or >because of typos in XML, "#" in place of "/" in XML namespace names, and >so on), as well as the range of "locally" minted terms.
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