william gunn wrote: > What's wrong with piggybank's export function? > If you do "View Source" in your browser, you'll see the RDF/XML code. I believe the browser for some reason displays RDF/XML as raw text with all the XML tags stripped out.
> Well, unless I'm missing something, it exports data as an unformatted stream > of characters. Your team has produced a nice set of utilities with > Babel/Exhibit. You can paste the results from the results pane of Solvent > directly into Babel and get out CSV, for example. I don't understand why > piggybank's export function doesn't output a recognizable format. Like I > said, perhaps I'm so dumb that I'm using totally the wrong tool for the job, > but piggybank/solvent seems like a great and simple way to get useable > information from plain html, and the data IS more useable in piggybank than > on the page it came from, but I'd like to play with my data a little more, > and I'm having trouble getting it out pf piggybank in a way that retains the > contextual information. > > Am I misunderstanding the purpose of piggybank or the intent of the output > of the export function? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Stefano Mazzocchi > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 06:11 PM > To: General List > Subject: Re: Where does piggybank keep its data? > > William Gunn wrote: > >> Thanks Stefano. I found the location on disk. Perhaps I need to look >> over the sesame docs a bit more, but I'm unclear on how to set it up >> as a repository in sesame. >> >> Perhaps I'm a little over my head, and if this isn't the place for my >> novice questions, let me know. >> >> I understand that I need to set up the piggybank data as a new data >> repository. I cloned the Native RDF Repository, and Entered the >> following parameters for it: >> >> The Sail stack I'm using is: >> org.openrdf.sesame.sailimpl.sync.SyncRdfRepository >> org.openrdf.sesame.sailimpl.nativerdf.NativeRdfRepository >> >> And the parameters I'm using are >> dir:[my profile]\piggy-bank\ >> triple-indexes: spo,ops >> >> >> When I start sesame, the new repository shows up in the list, but >> opening it shows a HTTP 500 written across the top of the page where >> the Read actions and Write actions appear if I select one of the >> default repositories. This probably suggests some fundamental >> misunderstanding on my part, and if so, I don't mind being told so. >> I'm quite aware that I have no idea what I'm doing. >> >> The problem I was trying to solve initially was, I thought, simple. >> How do I get the data I've already added to piggybank using my >> scraper, in the format it would have been shown in the results pane of >> solvent? Is this clear? Solvent is passing results.turtle to >> piggybank. I'm looking to do the reverse - exporting some of the data >> I have already scraped and added to piggybank into a file of the same >> > format as results.turtle. > > can I ask you first what's wrong with piggy-bank's own 'export' > functionality? > > -- > Stefano Mazzocchi > Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
