Hi. (I've discussed that with a few Debianers already, so apologies is this is nothing new to you, and also, as I'm new to the list, pardon my ignorance of previous discussions on same topic.)
We've been investigating the use of RDF and ontologies to represent bugs, and have setup a demonstration server which publishes facts about bugs in Debian (and associated entities, like foaf:profiles, and some packages relations) as RDF, starting from UDD database, using triplify. Here are more details : https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/TriplifyUddToRdf (including a link to the demo server running on a recent UDD snapshot). I'd like to discuss the idea of publishing such facts about Debian bugs as RDF right from debbugs. This would offer the advantage to allow debbugs to participate to the Linked Data (http://linkeddata.org/) movement aka Semantic Web. The idea is pretty simple : http://bugs.debian.org/534845, would be both a URI identifying : - a resource on the semantic web (subject of predicates in RDF), - and a URL that could resolve to : . a RDF document (similar to the content of http://kilauea.int-evry.fr:8081/triplify/UDD/issue/534845 for instance), when requested by "machines" . a HTML document, when requested by humans, i.e.: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534845 This would allow to construct applications that could crawl the Semantic Web and find <http://bugs.debian.org/534845> in other RDF documents which would refer to such a Debian bugs, and all the possible applications of the Semantic Web that one can imagine. One such application could be the interlinking of bugs in different bugtrackers through such semantically tagged relations, on the Semantic Web, instead of in a semi-closed database (as is in LaunchPad ;), so that tools like bts-link could make use of them. I think our work on reusing the EvoOnt BOM ontology and extending it with our Helios BT ontology could serve as a reference for an implementation in Debbugs, as our server can be queried to check how we produce RDF (which might be buggy, btw ;). I'd like to get feedback, comments, and any suggestions on this idea. Best regards, P.S.: for those wondering the context, we're working on https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/ and I'm also interested in improving bts-link to which I have contributed in recent weeks. And more about me at : http://kilauea.int-evry.fr:8081/triplify/UDD/carnivore/949 or http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/foaf.rdf ;-) -- Olivier BERGER <[email protected]> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 1024D/6B829EEC Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
