non blocking RDF/XML and NTriples Parser in Scala (and Java)

2012-02-10 Thread Henry Story
Hi, I have been working on getting a non blocking parsers to work. The point of that is that when you fetch RDF from the web you want to use as few resources as possible. If possible one should only use a few k of memory even for files that are 1GB long. Async parsing allows one to ha

Re: How to align ontology terms that are similar but are set to potentially incompatible domain?

2012-02-10 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Pete, This is an interesting use case showing the complexity of aligning ontologies, and the lack of a standard way to represent alignments. I couldn't access http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ so I'll give you an examples using the Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary (biol) the Wildlife Ontology (w

RE: using baseuri of a Dataset as the resource representing the Dataset itself

2012-02-10 Thread Armando Stellato
Dear Richard, many thanks for the valuable indications (well I didn't know about the practice of using baseuri as main conceptscheme, so yes, I prefer to use the baseuri for the concept scheme in that case!). Best, Armando > -Original Message- > From: Richard Cyganiak [mailto:rich...@cyga

Re: using baseuri of a Dataset as the resource representing the Dataset itself

2012-02-10 Thread Richard Cyganiak
Armando, in many cases it's not practicable because the base URI usually already denotes something else. For example, for concept schemes it is common to use the base URI as the identifier for the skos:ConceptScheme resource. If that's not so in your case then there's nothing wrong with using it

Re: sameAs.org milestone

2012-02-10 Thread Jordanous, Anna
A very useful resource, which touches on a current issue for me - I may be reviving a long-visited discussion here... (e.g. [1] ) Is it current practice now to use owl:sameAs for mapping ontologies, despite the semantic implications of sameAs? Is a weaker interpretation of sameAs now being take