Re: [CODE4LIB] W3C RDF Validation Workshop

2013-09-12 Thread Ethan Gruber
RDF is not the be all end all for representing information, so I don't know if there is a point to defining a validation schema which can also be represented in RDF since requirements vary from model to model, project to project. If you were creating RDF/XML, you could enforce complex validation

[CODE4LIB] W3C RDF Validation Workshop

2013-09-12 Thread Karen Coyle
I followed the W3C RDF Validation Workshop [1] over the last two days. The web page has both written papers and slides from each presentation. The short summary is that a number of users of RDF have found a need to do traditional style validation (required, one or more, must be numeric/from a

Re: [CODE4LIB] W3C RDF Validation Workshop

2013-09-12 Thread Karen Coyle
Ethan, it is true that probably a majority of RDF sets in the cloud are exports from a non-RDF format. Yet if you look at the page I cited, you will see that there are major players (including Google) working with triple-stores and doing validation on them using SPARQL. So validation of RDF