{"id":319,"date":"2010-06-14T14:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-06-14T14:38:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:38:36","slug":"quick-and-dirty-rdf-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2010\/06\/14\/quick-and-dirty-rdf-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and Dirty RDF Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know the world has quite a few RDF readers already, but I wanted something which was friendly and worked the way I do. I built the Q&amp;D-RDF browser for my own benefit, but in the last few days it&#8217;s proved so useful I have made the effort to tidy it up a bit and announce it as a service.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/browser\/\">http:\/\/graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/browser\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s built on top of the excellent ARC2 library, and my graphite library. I&#8217;ve downloaded all the current prefixes from <a href=\"http:\/\/prefix.cc\/\">prefix.cc<\/a> so that it will use short names for namespaces wherever possible. As it&#8217;s built on ARC2 it will handle lots of formats including RDF+XML, N3 and friends, and also RDFa and other abominations.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve found it most useful for is to point it at some RDF I&#8217;ve just completed and do a visual check that things look right. I&#8217;ve caught several dumb typos this way. The graphite &#8220;dump&#8221; format also seems to be much less intimidating for people that n3 or XML formats.<\/p>\n<h2>Dubious Data<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;What RDF have you been writing?&#8221;, is what I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re now wondering.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve been doing is brushing up my skills by writing some well engineered but <a href=\"http:\/\/data.totl.net\">deliberately pointless or inaccurate RDF datasets<\/a>. However, by accident, one of them is quite useful. The playing cards dataset at http:\/\/data.totl.net\/playingcards\/\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/data.totl.net\/playingcards\/\">Raw RDF<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/browser\/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdata.totl.net%2Fplayingcards%2F\">Browse<\/a>] actually looks like it might be a good example to use in an introduction to RDF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the world has quite a few RDF readers already, but I wanted something which was friendly and worked the way I do. I built the Q&amp;D-RDF browser for my own benefit, but in the last few days it&#8217;s proved so useful I have made the effort to tidy it up a bit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphite","category-rdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}