Hi Stan,
I doubt whether it's the first DCAT validator ever, but it certainly is
a great contribution to the LOD community. Worth mentioning for the
people on this list as well:
There is an npm (javascript/nodejs) library which you can customize with
your own mandatory or recommended properties:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/dcat-validator
Furthermore the source code of both the GUI as the npm package are
available: https://github.com/oSoc15/dcat-validator and
https://github.com/oSoc15/dcat-validator.js.
Next to seeing your contributions to the codebase, we'd love to see you
use the dcat-validator as a specific data catalog validator for your
country or field of expertise. Let us know what you think!
Kind regards,
Pieter
On 31-07-15 06:48, Stan Callewaert wrote:
Hello DCAT-users,
We are two students working on the DCAT-project for open Summer of
code 2015. The project is about creating the first DCAT validator,
which gives you feedback, telling you whether your DCAT feed is valid
or not. This project is organised by Open Knowledge Belgium and funded
by the Flemish government.
The intention of the DCAT validator is to show the user errors or
wanings when respectively mandatory or required properties are
missing. The validation can easily be done by manually inserting the
feed, uploading a file or inserting a URI. Through the use of
different tabs you can change the way you insert your feed. As a user
you can also select and insert different formats like RDF:XML, JSON-LD
and Turtle. These formats are supported by the validator as well. The
validator will parse these formats and serialize them as Turtle so
they can be validated. Once you have selected your format you can add
your feed to the validator.
After validation, your errors and warnings are presented. To find more
information about the error or warning you can expand the box which
will show you what properties are wrong or missing. Each property can
be expanded as well to show a property URI which will direct the user
to a page which contains more information about the property. As an
extra feature, when inserting a URI, the user can select the option
'Automatic' instead of selecting a format. This option checks which
format your URI contains, automatically selects the right parser and
validates it. This way the user doesn't have to select a format when
he wants to validate by URI. Selecting a format and inserting your
DCAT feed is very easy and doesn't take long, depending on the size of
your feed.
In short, this is the first DCAT validator which helps you as a user
to check if your DCAT feed is valid or not. It contains a few features
to help insert different formats and validate them. The errors and
warnings are shown and can be expanded for more information about its
properties.
You can test the validator right here: www.dcat.be/validator
<http://www.dcat.be/validator>
Kind regards
The DCAT-validator team.
Stan Callewaert
e-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Sébastien Henau
e-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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