Frederic V. Hessman wrote:
> Many heartfelt thanks to Doug and Alasdair! I'll not make any changes
> to IVOAT until you can provide your best attempt at a rules file.
>
> Does this mean that I can then routinely run cwm to produce
> automatically the official SKOS file with all the loose ends taken care of?
I think it does, since we have a very simple set of rules to extend the input RDF. However, I guess it depends on what we (or rather you, as you're doing all the hard work ;-) want the format for the base document of the thesaurus to be. If it's easier to work with a simple text file, and then post-process that to create the RDF version, then it may be better to make these additions at that stage - ie go from
simple text document
-> simple text document + automatic clean up
-> RDF, N3, HTML, ...
An advantage to the cwm approach is that we don't need to worry about
parsing, we can just concentrate on the logic. Some disadvantages are
that cwm can be painful to install, the syntax for the rules is not
standardized, and it can be awkward to do what appears to be simple
operations.
Doug Received on 2007-10-31Z15:02:57