About
The 3kbo blog title is “Building Semantic Web Applications” .
For the past year one application in particular has been the focus of my attention. This is CDMS, the “Compliance Data Management Service” for the building, construction and related industries.
Recently this has progressed to the point where details of the underlying OWL ontology are starting to become clearer. An initial very earlier draft of the ontology, currently termed the Inspection Test Plans ontology is published at http://www.abeservices.com.au/schema/2008/05/InspectionTestPlans.rdf.
The ontology can be queried using Sparql via a Joseki based SPARQLer - General purpose processor.
A lot of the activity of the past year has also been around setting up environments, e.g. Subversion, MySql, WordPress and choosing between the various options available for building a Semantic Web Application.
Currently Jena, Pellet, ActiveRDF and ARC2 are central components. The mix of Java, Ruby and PHP reflects two different server environments, CDMS is java based while 3kbo is Ruby on Rails and PHP based.
Over the past year the concept of Linked Data has gained popularity with sites such as DBpedia now making a lot of open data available.
3kbo is maintained by richard.hancock at 3kbo.com.
(Updated Sunday, 25 May 2008.)