The Structured Data Linter <http://linter.structured-data.org> should also be able to validate DCAT in arbitrary RDF markup.
Gregg Kellogg Sent from my iPad > On Jul 31, 2015, at 12:56 AM, Pieter Colpaert <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 >> >> Kind regards >> >> The DCAT-validator team. >> >> Stan Callewaert >> e-mail: [email protected] >> Sébastien Henau >> e-mail: [email protected] >> > > -- > +32486747122 > Linked Open Transport Data researcher > UGent - MMLab - iMinds > > Board of Directors Open Knowledge Belgium > http://openknowledge.be > > Open Transport working group coordinator at Open Knowledge International > http://transport.okfn.org
