Bernard, Thanks for your answer. Another question I was wondering: Can we extend the VOAF ontology to describe SKOS taxonomies ? Does this question make sense to you ? In the case of SKOS, we have only the notion of concepts not classes and properties.
Regards Stephane Fellah On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Bernard Vatant <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Stephane > > 2011/1/15 Stephane Fellah <[email protected]> > > Sounds very interesting initiative. Based on my understanding, I think it >> should be possible to write a tool that read any OWL document and generate a >> VOAF document. > > > Indeed I've been thinking along those lines. The current dataset is > handcrafted as a prototype should be, but I'm indeed thinking now about ways > to generate the VOAF description automagically from the OWL or RDFS files. > Devil is in the details, though. Some information you can't really get by > conventional parsing of the graph, such as which namespaces are used, to > populate the voaf:reliesOn property. Those you can get by ad hoc syntactic > scripts, but vocabularies are published using a variety of syntaxes. > > >> May be Swoogle could be a good starting point, but not sure how the API >> can provide the list of ontology namespaces through the REST API. > > > I don't know either, but I'm sure someone will find a way :) > > >> The imports section would corresponds to the imports statement. The tools >> would count the number of classes and properties in the ontology namespace. >> It would be interesting to aggregate all this information and see which >> vocabularies have the most influence using SNA algorithms. > > > You are welcome to play along those lines. I think there are a lot of > opportunities and things to discover. This is just the beginning of the > story. > > Best > > Bernard > > > > -- > Bernard Vatant > Senior Consultant > Vocabulary & Data Engineering > Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 > Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------- > Mondeca > 3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France > Web: http://www.mondeca.com > Blog: http://mondeca.wordpress.com > ---------------------------------------------------- >
