Using IVOA SKOS files as an example...

[Norman Gray]

Christophe, hello.

On 2010 Jun 19, at 20:24, Christophe Dupriez wrote:

> As I developed an XSLT file to display SKOS RDF files in HTML, I thought your files could be used as examples.
> I documented this (but did not publicize it) at:
> http://www.destin.be/ASKOSI/Wiki.jsp?page=SKOS%20RDF%20Generation
> 
> There are different possibilities:
> 1) you don't want me to use your files as an example: I will then remove that and ask somebody else!
> 2) you agree and I can announce the availability of the XSLT to the SKOS community
> 3) you agree and you want to include it in your examples: I would be very honored and would leave you announce the whole thing (mentionning the source) after you integrated the XSLT (copied on your server and adapted to your needs).

This is very interesting -- the formatted result looks very readable.  Do feel free to use these vocabularies as examples -- I'm please that you find our vocabularies of interest, and would be delighted to see this work disseminated further.

You might be interested in the HTML version of the vocabularies which is at <http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/Vocabularies/vocabularies-20091007/>.  The HTML versions there were (if I recall correctly) generated from the SKOS RDF by a couple of slightly different python scripts, which ingested the RDF and spat out the HTML.  In particular, note the two different styles of <http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/Vocabularies/vocabularies-20091007/AAkeys/AAkeys.html> and <http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/Vocabularies/vocabularies-20091007/IAUT93/IAUT93.html>.  These two vocabularies differ by an order of magnitude in size.

I think there is a long-standing question of how best to browse vocabularies such as these -- I tend to think that a monster web-page is slightly unwieldy -- but I think that scripts such as yours have a place in the answer to that.

Best wishes,

Norman


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