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- OntoSpy v.1.7.4
A new version of OntoSpy (1.7.4) is available online. OntoSpy is a lightweight Python library and command line tool for inspecting and visualising vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages. This version includes a hugely improved API for creating nice-looking HTML or Markdown documentation for an ontology, which takes advantage of frameworks like Bootstrap […]
- Ontospy v. 1.6.7
A new and improved version of OntoSpy (1.6.7) is available online. OntoSpy is a lightweight Python library and command line tool for inspecting and visualizing vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages. This update includes support for Python 3, plus various other improvements that make it easier to query semantic web vocabularies using OntoSpy’s […]
- Towards an ontology for philosophy
I enjoyed watching a recent presentation by Barry Smith about ontology engineering and in particular its application in the field of philosophy itself. The presentation was hosted by the InPho team at Indian University, whose ongoing work based on creating an ontological backbone for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has drawn the attention of many. Barry […]
- Nature.com ontologies portal available online
The Nature ontologies portal is new section of the nature.com site that describes our involvement with semantic technologies and also makes available to the wider public several models and datasets as RDF linked data. We launched the portal nearly a month ago, to the purpose of sharing our experiences with semantic technologies and more generally […]
- Nature.com subject pages available online!
Subject pages are pages that aggregate content from across nature.com based on the tagging of that content by NPG subject ontology terms. After six months of work on this project we’ve finally launched the first release of the site, which is reachable online at http://www.nature.com/subjects. Hooray! This has been a particularly challenging experience cause I’ve […]
- Towards a conceptual model for the domain of sculpture
For the next two years I’ll be collaborating with the Art of Making project. The project investigates the processes involved in the carving of stone during the Roman period, in particular it aims at analysing them using the insights and understanding Peter Rockwell (son of Norman Rockwell) developed during his lifelong experience as a sculptor. […]
- Event: THATcamp Kansas and Digital Humanities Forum
The THATcamp Kansas and Digital Humanities Forum happened last week at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, which is part of the University of Kansas in beautiful Lawrence. I had the opportunity to be there and give a talk about some recent stuff I’ve been working on regarding digital prosopography and computer ontologies, […]
- Inspecting an ontology with RDFLib
RDFLib (homepage) is a pretty solid and comprehensive rdf-programming kit for Python. In a previous post I already discussed what pythonic options are currently available out there for doing semantic web programming; after some more in depth testing I realized that Rdflib is the most accessible and complete of them all (in fact many of […]
- Python links (and more) 7/2/11
This post contains just a collection of various interesting things I ran into in the last couple of weeks… they’re organized into three categories: pythonic links, events and conferences, and new online tools. Hope you’ll find something of interest! Pythonic stuff: Epidoc Epydoc is a handy tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based […]
- KR workshop #2: introducing CIDOC-CRM and FRBR-OO
This is the second appointment with the knowledge representation seminar we’re having at CCH (Kings College, London). If you are in the area and are interested in taking part in this, please drop me an email. We’re looking at these topics from the specific perspective of the digital humanities, but even if your take on […]