Using RDF and ontologies for such metadata (combined DOAP and other ontologies) Was: Re: Gathering package upstream meta-data in the UDD. (was: Re: more formally indicating the registration URL)
Hi.
(responding with more feedback as I have taken time to dig the
debian-med archives)
If I get it right, you intend to match bibliographic references and
software projects / packages ?
I'd very much suggest adopting a Semantic Web perspective in a way to
provide such links as RDF descriptions that can use ontologies used
already by other applications, hence contributing to LinkedData [0]
(maybe through microformats embedded as RDFa in the current 'web
sentinels' or as specific RDF feeds.
For an example of such application, see :
http://www.connotea.org/rss/search?q=SAMtools
which mixes RSS 1.0 with other ontologies (and exactly the same example
you provided more or less).
Here, you may then link DOAP [1] with existing bibliographic ontologies
like PRISM.
This of course could be provided from UDD also if UDD was to participate
more to the Semantic Web as I proposed in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/02/msg00016.html and further
discussions.
Just my 2 cents,
[0] : http://linkeddata.org/
[1] : http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap
Btw, :
Le jeudi 22 octobre 2009 à 09:49 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Alternatively we could do
>
> CREATE TABLE upstream-metadata (
> package text,
> key text,
> value text,
> PRIMARY KEY (package,key)
> );
This very much looks like triples of RDF, which could store any metadata
expressed in any RDF ontology, so that might be really useful ;)
Best regards,
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