Validation of services based on ontology

[akuckartz]

Validation of services can be done by using formal ontologies. No specific syntactic validation is necessary because this can be done implicitely by using JSON-LD libraries.

Collaboration with the Hydra W3C CG and the new validation WG of the W3C will be helpful.

[akuckartz]

A lot of interesting material was produced for and by this workshop:

RDF Validation Workshop
Practical Assurances for Quality RDF Data
10-11 September 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA
http://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/

This workshop also is the basis on which the W3C is discussing a charter for a WG.

Examples of RDF Validation
http://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/SOTA

Parts of a test-suite created for JSON-LD are reusable:
https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/tree/master/test-suite

[akuckartz]

Hydra is experimenting with RDFUnit (https://github.com/AKSW/RDFUnit) for validation purposes. Seems to be usable.

Quick guide:

• git clone https://github.com/AKSW/RDFUnit.git
• cd RDFUnit
• mvn install

Example:

• bin/rdfunit -d http://data.linkeddatafragments.org -s dc,hydra

[akuckartz]

The mission of the RDF Data Shapes Working Group is to produce a language for defining structural constraints on RDF graphs. In the same way that SPARQL made it possible to query RDF data, the product of the RDF Data Shapes WG will enable the definition of graph topologies for interface specification, code development, and data verification.

RDF Data Shapes Working Group Charter
http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/charter

[akuckartz]

Work will proceed in #137 - therefore closing this issue.