Voc2RDF
voc2rdf is a web-based tool for converting flat-file controlled vocabulary documents containing tabular data into RDF/XML documents that use classes and terms. The tool allows users to provide a delimited file, a basic set of metadata, and produce a RDF/XML document that can be imported into the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository (ORR) and/or downloaded for use on a local computer. Currently, voc2rdf supports the following features:
- Import/export comma, semicolon, tab, and pipe delimited data
- Basic editing of tabular data, including the addition/removal of rows and columns
- Custom or MMI-provided URIs
- OMV Metadata: Title, Creator, Description, Authority
- Representation of vocabularies using OWL classes and terms
- Direct submission to the MMI ORR or downloadable RDF file
To provide feedback, please contact us, use our Google Code issue queue, or join the orr-users or orr-dev mailing lists.
Semantic Web vocabularies are represented using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Simple vocabularies are those easily expressed in ASCII-table like format, where a term, its properties and its relations to other terms are all given in one row. RDF allows us to conceptualize and express the vocabulary in a standard XML format (RDF).
This web tool will help you transform simple vocabularies into the Resource Description Framework. Voc2RDF facilitates the transformation of simple vocabularies into a format that can be used by Semantic Web tools; in particular, tools that facilitate semantic translations across vocabularies, facilitating semantic interoperability.
This tool is part of the Marine Metadata Interoperability project (MMI).
