Hi. As previously announced on debian-qa (and following past discussions on RDF in Debian on -project)...
Olivier Berger <ober...@debian.org> writes: > I've started working on #685605, i.e. adding some RDF+XML documents > generated for the PTS static pages. > > Appologies for those not Semantic Web aware in advance ;-) I hope the > code and following example can help illustrate my goal, still, beyond > the jargon. > This means that the PTS [0] will progressively produce, alongside HTML pages meant for humans, RDF pages meant for Linked Data [1] / Semantic Web aware applications. You can see an example in trying (with 'raptor2-utils' installed): $ rapper -o turtle http://packages.qa.debian.org/apache2 If you prefer more visual/navigatable versions, use one of the browsers referenced in [2] or see the output of the W3C RDF validator [5]. for more details about the underlying format : $ curl -L -v -H 'Accept: application/rdf+xml' http://packages.qa.debian.org/apache2 The main objective is to try and produce (closest as possible from the source) an authoritative description of Debian's packages in an interoperable format (RDF using ADMS.SW 1.0 ontology [3]) Thus, each package in Debian can be identified with a unique URI like <http://packages.qa.debian.org/apache2>, which is dereferenceable as RDF. Any Semantic Web application can then reference that resource, which becomes part of the Linked Open Data cloud [4]. There are probably lots of uses that could emerge from this, but the immediate I can think of is the matching of Debian packages with other packages/projects (upstream, downstream, other dists) in an interoperable way (see other projects like distromatch, etc.). AFAICT, this is the first large deployment of an ADMS.SW 1.0 implementation. Thanks to Raphaël (buxy) for his kind assistance in deploying this new feature on the PTS. Btw, the RDF (static) pages generation is still in progress, so don't complain if your preferred source package isn't already available. Questions, comments, suggestions, bugfixes welcome. Best regards, [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/ [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data#Browsers [3] http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/description [4] http://linkeddata.org/ [5] http://ur1.ca/a1yd7 P.S.: there's the begining of interlinking Debian packages with Ubuntu ones in the output... hoping that the design decision I've made for that relation doesn't connotate it in a too trollish way ;) -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vcxzth7....@inf-8657.int-evry.fr
