<Maybe it is time to learn SparqlMotion :)>

The SPARQLMotion tutorial (and examples posted) are highly recommended
- see http://www.topquadrant.com/products/SPARQLMotion.html

-- Scott

On May 14, 6:37 am, Arthur Keen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scott
>
> Thanks very much for the script.  Maybe it is time to learn  
> SparqlMotion :)
>
>   I have been using subversion for the source models stored in .n3  
> format, but not for the rdf/xml files as they are derived  
> automatically from the .n3. and don't need to be kept under source  
> control.
>
> Thanks
> Arthur
>
> On May 14, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Scott Henninger wrote:
>
>
>
> > Arthur; Have you thought about using SVN for this?  It does require
> > setting up a CVS server (there are services for this alahttp://cvsdude.com/)
> > ,
> > and will allow rollback, version management etc.  In terms of storing
> > frequently changing files this kind of source change control change is
> > invaluable.
>
> > -- Scott
>
> > On May 13, 11:28 pm, Arthur Keen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Naicong
>
> >> I asked about this a couple of months back and I was quite surprised
> >> that Composer does not directly implement this capability.  I thought
> >> Holger's solution would work well for one-time or infrequent
> >> translation, but my challenge is that I have to keep the models in n3
> >> and owl in synch throughout development through lots of changes.  I
> >> estimated that it would  take a longer time to learn SPARQLMotion  
> >> than
> >> to simply code a solution in Java.    Creating a spreadsheet of all  
> >> my
> >> files would be tedious and error prone because I have many models  
> >> in a
> >> very deep file hierarchy and I would have to re-visit a spreadsheet  
> >> of
> >> all models often because of frequent re-factoring.  So, I wrote a
> >> small Java utility that recurses through a source directory tree,
> >> creates an equivalent target directory tree, and on encountering .n3
> >> files, loads them, and then saves them in RDF/XML into the equivalent
> >> location in the target directory structure.  Is this what you are
> >> looking for?
>
> >> Arthur
>
> >> On May 13, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Li, Naicong wrote:
>
> >>> Hi Irene,
>
> >>> I checked the SPARQLMotion functions list and did not see any
> >>> obvious that I could use.  I check the old emails on this list and
> >>> found this one below.  Do you mean I need to do something like what
> >>> Holger is describing?
>
> >>> Thanks for the help.
> >>> Naicong
>
> >>> ============================
> >>> <image001.gif>
> >>> Arthur
> >>> View profile
> >>>  More options Feb 19, 5:23 pm
> >>> Is there an easy way in TopBraid to convert an entire project
> >>> containing a large number of models in .N3 file format to another
> >>> format e.g., .OWL?  The project contains about 50 models and the
> >>> developers would feel more comfortable with xml trainer wheels.
>
> >>> <image001.gif>
> >>> Holger Knublauch
> >>> View profile
> >>>  More options Feb 19, 6:15 pm
> >>> Not out of the box, only SPARQLMotion could help. You would need the
> >>> list of file names though, somehow (e.g. from a spreadsheet). Then  
> >>> use
> >>> a SM script to import that spreadsheet and iterate over all file
> >>> names. Then use sml:ImportRDFFromWorkspace to load and the
> >>> corresponding export module to save it back in the new format.
> >>> Holger
>
> >>> From: [email protected] 
> >>> [mailto:[email protected]
> >>> ] On Behalf Of Irene Polikoff
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:20 PM
> >>> To: [email protected]
> >>> Subject: [tbc-users] Re: File format conversion
>
> >>> Yes, of course, with a SPARQLMotion script
>
> >>> From: [email protected] 
> >>> [mailto:[email protected]
> >>> ] On Behalf Of Li, Naicong
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:58 PM
> >>> To: [email protected]
> >>> Subject: [tbc-users] File format conversion
>
> >>> Hi,
>
> >>> Because of our project needs, we need to convert the ontology format
> >>> between .n3 and .owl quite often (sometimes to .allegro as well).
> >>> We have about 40 ontologies, and in the past we did the conversion a
> >>> couple times by manually exporting each file to a different format
> >>> and it’s very time consuming (and error prone).   Is there a way
> >>> that we can do this in a batch?
>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> Naicong
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