My Vision for an Enhanced Linked Data Architecture – PART 4
In my previous post, I continued to discuss and address, what I believe to be, some of the current stumbling blocks to full adoption of Linked Data integration concepts and patterns in today’s Information Interoperability / Information Sharing space. I attempted to address one of the current stumbling block by identifying additional components (the Enhanced parts) of my proposed Enhanced Linked Data Architecture and its current incarnation as the Enhanced Linkeddata Architecture for Persistent Sharing Environments (ELAPSE)™.
In this post, I will begin to discuss another concern associated with today’s RDF Stores and Linkeddata Framework solutions that could also be addressed via this Enhanced Linked Data Architecture. This concern is the perceived complexity of building the models necessary for successful Linked Data integration concepts and patterns implementation.
From an Ontology Management and Taxonomy creation perspective, tools do exist today that can support multiple ontology representation languages that are used to develop and maintain the persistence of a model and to support visual navigation possibilities within a specific knowledge model implementing Linked Data integration concepts and patterns. A handful of these tools are listed on this Semantic Web Modeling solutions page.
An evolving standard that has helped to simplify the syntax used to format and give expression to Linked Data models–specifically, RDF, Ontologies, and Taxonomies–is Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language). Turtle is generally recognized as being more readable and easier to manually edit than RDF/XML. A majority of today’s RDF Stores and Linkeddata Framework solutions and toolkits include Turtle parsing and serialization ability.
When focused on open source and open standards, some other existing components (the Enhanced parts) of my proposed Enhanced Linked Data Architecture that will help address this concern are:
Neologism – by the Linked Data Research Centre – DERI – National University of Ireland, Galway (Info and Download)
Xturtle Editor Eclipse-based plugin – by the Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) – (Info and Gihub)
Semaphore Ontology Manager – by Smartlogic Semaphore Limited (Info and Download)
My next post is the first in a series of “spotlight posts” I will use to illuminate practical examples of Real-life Semantic Web Technology-based Information Sharing via Linked Data Concepts.
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