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SPARQL for SKOS integrity constraints

I blogged before on how to test SKOS integrity constraints, constraints which couldn't be expressed with OWL2 as defined by W3C. I'm aware of two sol...

SKOS and the OWL API (again)

I'm having trouble to understand what the OWL API is doing with SKOS. This is my case. I start a new ontology and I import the SKOS Simple Knowledge ...

Some Gridworks tips

Much of the data that’s lying around is a mess. So we need badly tools that help us to clean up this mess. Freebase Gridworks of Metaweb, recentl...

Some Gridworks tips

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Moving to another triple store supporting SPARQL 1.1

Problem statement We have been using in a project Sesame as rdf triple store and SPARQL endpoint. The reasons we choose Sesame ...

SKOS and the OWL API

As a follow up to the preceding entry on SKOS and OWL2 describing some difficulties in using the SKOS ontologies (DL and Full) in tools based on th...

Where OWL fails, another OWL arises

What happened previously In the SKOS spec you find a list of Class & Property Definitions and Integrity Conditions numbered from S1 to S62. Mos...

Integrity Constraints in SKOS (part 3)

Today's constraint is S27 skos:related is disjoint with the property skos:broaderTransitive. OWL2 While OWL 1 provided means to state t...

Integrity constraints in SKOS (part 2)

UPDATE: tested with the new Pellet 2.1.0 and Pellet ICV 0.4 We focus on the SKOS integrity constraint with number S13. S13 skos:prefLabel, s...

Integrity constraints in SKOS (part 1)

UPDATED: due to the release of Pellet ICV 0.4 If you want to use SKOS, you need to be aware of some integrity constraints formulated in the spec. ...

HTTP in XProc (updated again)

UPDATE: Norm Walsh, the editor of the XProc spec and the developer of Calabash commented that PUT and DELETE are supported by XProc. See at the end o...

SKOS (part 4): property chains

We consider following SKOS property definitions which were not expressible in OWL1: S55: The property chain (skosxl:prefLabel, sk...

slides XRX

My slides used during the well attended seminar on XRX (45 attendees) for SAI. [Download file "XRX.pdf"]

Strange reasoning with Open Calais

I have been testing Open Calais. Open Calais is a Web Service for text mining that can extract entities (persons, companies, countries, ... ) in RDF/O...

Some SPARQL extension function tricks

Identifiers with qualifiers in round brackets DBPedia is using in its identifiers qualifiers within round brackets to be able to distinguish bet...

Seminar The Digital Future of Cultural Heritage

The slides of my SW talk at the very successful seminar "Access to Enriched Cultural Heritage Information Using Semantic Web Technology Leuven, Belgi...

Semantic Web entailment regimes

W3C has published a set of URI-s to uniquely identify Semantic Web entailment regimes. I added some links to the related specs on the web and ...

Article on Semantic Web

My article on the Semantic Web (in Dutch) that appeared in DB/M Database Magazine, Issue 8, December 2009 is available online. Note: the link is fin...

Slides Semantic Technologies talk

The slides used during my talk on Semantic Web Technologies for SAI in Brussels on November 24th 2009 are available here. [Download file "SW.pdf"]

A must read: Temporal Scope for RDF Triples

Issue One of the major issues in RDF is how to associate metadata with a statement. I can make a statement that "John - married_to - Joan...