[Xesam] Desktop ontology svn layout

[Leo Sauermann]

ok, so we agree.

still - use N3 and do two files, trig sucks.

best
Leo<

It was Sebastian Trüg who said at the right time 26.06.2009 19:54 the 
following words:
> On Friday 26 June 2009 18:08:52 Leo Sauermann wrote:
>   
>> If possible, it would be good if you could look into the currenty ANT
>> scripts that do the whole business of generating the HTML files and
>> converting the ontologies.
>>     
>
> I will try. Never used ant before but I will manage. :)
>
>   
>> The current layout is not because we like chaos, but because our current
>> set of ANT scripts works with that setup and it was too hard to change
>> the script (it was easier to just put all ontologies into the same
>> folder and then tweak the ant script)
>>     
>
> sure. I know how this works. Stuff grows.
>
>   
>> In general, I do not like the smell of release/draft folders, but I
>> think its ok.
>> I think each ontology should be in its own folder and some readme.txt
>> should show the status, but its also fine the way with superfolders. but
>>     
>
> I thought about that, too. But a folder structure seems cleaner to me. You can 
> get all stable ones by simply checking out that folder. It is also simpler for 
> release scripts, not to mention a human trying to understand the structure.
>
>   
>> we should not try to classify them further using folder strucutres, this
>> will end up in sucking, rather use the wiki to guide people around.
>>
>> The W3C way is something like
>> ...2009/06/ndo-draft  .... then
>> ...2006/08/ndo-draft  ... then
>> ...tr/ndo
>>     
>
> I doubt we need this. The year is not really interesting IMHO, it is in the 
> svn metadata anyway.
>
>   
>> we should use SVN tags to mark releases and otherwise keep the files
>> always in the same folder, its much more convenient, but also here I am
>> open for ideas.
>>     
>
> yes, svn tags for releases.
>
>   
>> about TRIG: (I would like N3, see below)
>> this is fine, we stopped using protégé for ontology development some
>> time ago, because as we are doing a standardization process, the SVN
>> logs are very very very important to verify what chnages have been done,
>> and a visual ontology editor sometimes reformats the whole file, which
>> makes it impossible to verify what has been changed by whom and why, so
>> I am in favor for TRIG and text files.
>> Could someone write this down on our OntologyMaintenance page?
>>
>> there is only one problem - there is a lack of online tools [1] for
>> checking/validating/converting trig, this sucks. For the sake of keeping
>> a sane mind, and being quick while hacking,
>> I would propose to use N3 instead because there is more tool support for
>> it.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://rdfabout.com/demo/validator/index.xpd
>> http://www.mindswap.org/2002/rdfconvert/
>> -> these tools, which I daily use when cheking ontologies, do not
>> support trig.
>> Trig=bad
>> n3=good
>>     
>
> hm, but wouldn't that again mean to have two files: the data graph and the 
> metadata graph? I also wanted to avoid that. The other possibility would be to 
> auto-generate the metadata from the release date and maybe the last svn 
> change, the svn commiters and a metadata file.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
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