[Xesam] Desktop ontology svn layout

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Monday 29 June 2009 21:05:53 Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Sebastian Trüg <strueg at mandriva.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 29 June 2009 09:35:58 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > > On Monday 29 June 2009 02:32:45 Leo Sauermann wrote:
> > > > ok, so we agree.
> > > >
> > > > still - use N3 and do two files, trig sucks.
> > >
> > > due to missing tool support?
> > > Two files means having build tools that merge them. These cannot be
> > > based on java!
> >
> > actually I think this is not correct. We could have the files generated
> > on the
> > server. Then I think it is OK to use java tools. However, if the files
> > should
> > be generated at build-time, then we should use scripts, python or perl or
> > bash
> > or whatever.
> >
> > Is there someone with scripting skills here?
>
> I can help with that. Ping me in IRC (#xesam).
>
> I am thinking about 3 input files:
> > 1. the common namespaces which we use for all ontologies
> > 2. the actual N3 source of the ontology itself
> > 3. the metadata n3 file
>
> What is this metadata file? the instances of the ontology?

It contains meta information about the ontology like the last modification 
date, the authors, the abbreviation typically used, the type of the graph the 
ontology is stored in (as in nrl:Ontology), and others. This is something 
developed in the Nepomuk project as part of NRL.

Cheers,
Sebastian